Distributed Phone Node

DataFlux Data Management Studio 2.5: User Guide

Distributed Phone Node

You can add a Distributed Phone node to a data job to offload phone data processing to a machine other than the one running the current DataFlux Data Management Studio job. The node is particularly useful when running on a DataFlux Data Management Server: Basic as it can offer performance increases by eliminating the overhead of connecting to the Phone database when starting a real-time service. This node also allows many phone loo up services to be open at once. Previously, a memory limitation prevented multiple services from being opened.

Use the Distributed Phone node to match information from the phone reference database with telephone numbers in your data to determine information. If the full phone number cannot be found or the input only contains an area code, the node will attempt to look up the area code alone. If this succeeds, general information about the area code will be returned.

Note Note: To use this node you must have DataFlux Data Management Server: Basic installed and licensed. For additional information about DataFlux Data Management Server: Basic installation and configuration please refer to the DataFlux Data Management Server: Basic Reference Guide. After you have installed and configured DataFlux Data Management Server: Basic, you must add the following key and value to the app.cfg file:

DFCLIENT/CFG = <INTELLISERVER CLIENT CONFIGURATION FILE>

For example:

DFCLIENT/CFG = C:\Program Files\DataFlux\dfIntelliServer\etc\dfclient.cfg

To use this node you must have, or be able to create, FIPS codes in your data.

Once you have added the Distributed Phone node, you can double-click it to open its properties dialog. The properties dialog includes the following elements:

Name - Specifies a name for the node.

Notes - Enables you to open the Notes dialog. You use the dialog to enter optional details or any other relevant information for the input.

Phone Input Field - Enables you to select the field in your data that contains telephone numbers. The available fields are determined by your data source(s) and any steps preceding this node in your job flow.

The Output fields section of the dialog includes the following elements:

Available - Displays the fields that you can make available for the next step in your data job. Items displayed in this list are dependent on your data sources and any preceding steps in your data job.

Selected - Displays the fields that will be made available to the next node in your data job.

Additional OutputsDisplays the Additional Outputs dialog. This dialog enables you to specify the fields that you can make available to the next node in your data job.

Override Server - Enables you to override the default connection to the dfIntelliServer specified in the dfclient.cfg file. (See the dfIntelliServer Reference Guide for more information about configuration settings). If you want to override the default server setting and perform the area code lookup on a different dfIntelliServer instance, you can specify the server name in the Override Server field and port number on this dialog.

You can access the following advanced properties by right-clicking the Distributed Phone node:

Distributed Phone Node

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