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Hi all,

Today’s short post is about a simple, but very powerful feature that often is overlooked: Begin/End Mapping Command. These options are in the Physical tab and, as their name suggests, they may issue any kind of command before a mapping begins and/or after it finishes.

Pay close attention to the detail that they may execute ANY command from ANY technology that ODI may handle and that’s why it is so powerful. You may run anything from Oracle DML statements, a piece of Java code, trigger OS commands and so on. This gives you a lot of flexibility.

A very common example that we may use those are to “track” some mapping in a separate log table. Although you have ODI Operator that contains all the log information on it, sometimes we may get a requirement to track all the executions of a particular mapping, so people know for sure when it ran and that the logs will not be purged by accident from the Operator by someone. Let’s see how we may accomplish logging the start and end times of a execution.

Let’s start with “Begin”. First you select which technology and logical schema that command refers to. In this case, we will insert the name of the mapping, the time that it started, and which was the session number that it was assigned to in ODI.

Let’s do the same with “End”:

Let’s run the mapping. When we go to Operator, we may see that two new tasks were created, one before and another one after the main mapping:

We may double click it to see the code that was executed:

If we query the LOG_INFO table, we will see two entries, one for begin and another one for end:

This was a very short example as you may do way more than that. You may send emails to alert that a critical mapping has completed, you may zip and move a file after it was just loaded by the mapping, you may run an OS bat file that will prepare your enviroment before a data load and so on. These two options are a great alternative for us to get all these “small” codes inside the ODI mapping object itself and rely less on small ODI procedures.

See ya!

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