Pentaho 3.2 Data Integration Beginner's Guide

Summary

In this chapter you learned how to get data from files and put data back into files. Specifically, you learned how to:

• Get data from plain files and also from XML files
• Put data into text files and Excel files
• Get information from the operating system such as command-line arguments and system date

We also discussed the following:

• The main PDI terminology related to data, for example datasets, data types, and streams
• The Select values step, a commonly used step for selecting, reordering, removing and changing data
• How and when to use Kettle variables
• How to run transformations from a terminal with the Pan command

Now that you know how to get data into a transformation, you are ready to start manipulating data. This is going to happen in the next ...