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Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE

You're reading from   Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE An end-to-end guide to exploring, transforming, and integrating your data across multiple sources

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788292436
Length 500 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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María Carina Roldán María Carina Roldán
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Pentaho Data Integration 2. Getting Started with Transformations FREE CHAPTER 3. Creating Basic Task Flows 4. Reading and Writing Files 5. Manipulating PDI Data and Metadata 6. Controlling the Flow of Data 7. Cleansing, Validating, and Fixing Data 8. Manipulating Data by Coding 9. Transforming the Dataset 10. Performing Basic Operations with Databases 11. Loading Data Marts with PDI 12. Creating Portable and Reusable Transformations 13. Implementing Metadata Injection 14. Creating Advanced Jobs 15. Launching Transformations and Jobs from the Command Line 16. Best Practices for Designing and Deploying a PDI Project

Using the Pan and Kitchen utilities

Pan is a command-line program used to launch the transformations designed in Spoon. The counterpart to Pan is Kitchen, which allows you to run Jobs. In this first section, you will learn the basics about these utilities.

Running jobs and transformations

Kitchen, the program that executes Jobs from a Terminal window, comes in two versions:kitchen.bat and kitchen.sh. You will use one or the other depending on the platform—Windows or Unix-like systems respectively. Pan, the program that executes transformations from a Terminal window, also comes in two versions: pan.bat and pan.sh.

You will find all these files—kitchen.bat, kitchen.sh, pan.bat, and pan.sh—in the PDI installation...
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