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María Carina Roldán
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María Carina Roldán

María Carina Roldán was born in Argentina and has a bachelor's degree in computer science. She started working with Pentaho back in 2006. She spent all these years developing BI solutions, mainly as an ETL specialist, and working for different companies around the world. Currently, she lives in Buenos Aires and works as an independent consultant. Carina is the author of Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE, published by Packt in December 2017. She has also authored other books on Pentaho, all of them published by Packt.
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Running jobs with the Kitchen utility


In Chapter 2, Getting Familiar with Spoon, you learned how to run transformations in production environments by using the Pan command-line utility. There is a counterpart tool for running jobs: the Kitchen command. Using Kitchen is no different than using Pan. The tool comes in two flavors: Kitchen.bat and Kitchen.sh, for use in a Windows or a Linux system, respectively. Let's review the different options. The simplest way to run a job is to indicate the full path of the kjb file. You do so with the following syntax:

Kitchen.bat /file=<kjb file name>

You can also use the following command:

Kitchen.sh /file=<kjb file name>

For example, if you want to load the datamart from the command line in Windows, you can do so by running the following command:

Kitchen.bat /file=c:/pdi/load_datamart.kjb

Kitchen can receive the same parameters that Pan does; the most common are as follows:

  • level: This indicates the log level. The syntax for setting the log level...
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María Carina Roldán

María Carina Roldán was born in Argentina and has a bachelor's degree in computer science. She started working with Pentaho back in 2006. She spent all these years developing BI solutions, mainly as an ETL specialist, and working for different companies around the world. Currently, she lives in Buenos Aires and works as an independent consultant. Carina is the author of Learning Pentaho Data Integration 8 CE, published by Packt in December 2017. She has also authored other books on Pentaho, all of them published by Packt.
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