DataFlux Data Management Studio 2.6: User Guide

Adding a Data Job Node to a Process Job

Overview

If you want to add a set of data-processing operations to a process job, you can add a Data Job node to the job. A number of the process jobs in the DataFlux Sample repository include Data Job nodes. The next display shows a process job called dfsample_echo that is selected in the Folders tree.

If you right-click a process job in the Folders tree, then select Open, the process job dialog opens, as shown in the next display.

On the right of the display above, the flow goes from a source node (Table of Data), to a set of processing nodes (such as the Work Table Reader). The flow has a true/false branch so that if certain conditions are true, then information flows to the Data Job 1 node at lower right. If you were to right-click the Data Job 1 node and select Edit, the Data Job node dialog would open, as shown in the next display.

The Data Job node dialog is very similar to the dialog for data jobs in the Folders tree. On the right of the display above, the flow goes from a processing node (SQL Query 1) to a target Data Target (Insert) 1). Data Job 1 gets data from the parent process job (dmsample_echo) and creates output tables based on that data. The interface for a Data Job node has three additional tabs which are needed in the context of a process job: Inputs, Outputs, and Node Connections.

The steps for adding a Data Job node to a process job depends on the flow of the parent job. For more information about how to create a process job with a Data Job node, see Creating a Process Job.