There are two main artifacts in PDI: transformations and jobs. While transformations deal mainly with data, jobs deal with tasks or processes. With a job, you organize a list of tasks by indicating the order of execution and deciding whether the execution should depend on certain conditions. Consider the following sample PDI job:
Sample PDI job
One of the good things about PDI is that by simply taking a look at the graphical representation of a job or a transformation in Spoon, it is quite easy to deduce its general purpose. In this example, we can see that the sample job checks some database connections. ...
