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Published inOct 2013
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ISBN-139781782167266
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Rick Barton
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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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Setting the context file location in the operating system


The initial context load method and the tContextLoad methods do suffer from having to use a predetermined file location. This exercise shows how it is possible to overcome this via the use of system variables.

Note that this exercise is demonstrated on Microsoft Windows 7; however, it is possible to set and use global environment variables in Talend in any version of Windows, Linux, or Mac OS.

Getting ready

Copy the systemValueContext.txt file from the cookbook directory/chapter6 to C:\TalendContextDirectory.

How to do it...

The steps for setting the context file location in the operating system are as follows:

  1. Run the job, and you will notice that the value of the context variable is set to In the job.

  2. Go to Start | Control Panel | System and Security.

  3. Select System, then click the right-hand side Advanced system settings.

  4. Click on the Environment Variables button.

  5. Under the System variables, click on New.

  6. Enter Variable name as TALEND_CONTEXT_DIRECTORY...

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Published in: Oct 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782167266

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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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