Until now, you have been working with simple and straight flows of data. However, often the rows of your dataset have to take different paths and those simple flows are not enough. This situation can be handled very easily, and you will learn how to do it in this section.
For the exercises about splitting streams, we will use information from the Pentaho BI Platform Tracking site. So, before starting with the PDI subject, let's introduce the Tracking site. On this site, you can see the current Pentaho roadmap and browse its issue-tracking system.
The following instructions are for exporting the list of proposed new features for PDI from the site:
- Access the main Pentaho Tracking site page at http://jira.pentaho.com.
At this point, you may want to create a user ID. Logging is not mandatory, but it is beneficial if...