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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788298995

Pages 470 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Data Processing

Authors (2):

Jasmine Kaur

Francesco Corti

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. Introduction to Pentaho Reporting

2. Getting Started with Report Designer

3. Getting Started with Reporting SDK

4. Creating a Report with Report Designer

5. Design and Layout in Report Designer

6. Configuring JDBC and Other Data Sources

7. Including Graphics and Charts in Reports

8. Parameterization, Functions, Variables, and Formulas

9. Internationalization and Localization

10. Subreports and Cross Tabs

11. The PRPT Format and the Java API to Build It

12. Developing Using Data Sources

13. Internationalization, Subreports, and Cross Tabs Using Java

14. Building Interactive Reports

15. Using Reports in Pentaho Business Analytics Platform

16. Using Reports in Pentaho Data Integration

17. Pentaho Reporting Nightly Build and Support

Introducing Pan and Kitchen

To complete the brief introduction of the Pentaho Data Integration main capabilities, let's see how to execute a generic job or transformation from the command line. For this purpose, two Pentaho tools called Pan and Kitchen are available.

Kitchen is a program that can execute jobs designed by Spoon. Pan is a program that can execute transformations designed by Spoon. Usually jobs and transformations are scheduled in batch modes to be run automatically at regular intervals. Kitchen and Pan come bundled in the standard distribution of Pentaho Data Integration and they are available as scripts named kitchen and pan in the data-integration folder (kitchen.sh and pan.sh are for Linux-based operating system and kitchen.bat and pan.bat are for Windows-based operating system).

The kitchen and pan scripts can be launched using several parameters to control and configure their execution. Parameters can be specified at the command line, using the syntax /param:value or -param...