Creating dynamic file names
Ok now I am getting somewhere with OWB. Well all thanks to you guys for helping me out with my questions. Anyway now I am facing an issue I want to create the output files with today's file name. I mean if i am running the mapping on the 20th of October the file name should be xyz10202008.txt. If I am running the mapping on 25th of October the file name should be xyz10252008.txt. In the configure option where we specify the actual file name can we give an expression. In SSIS there is an option like that to customize a file name for the date. How do we simulate the same in OWB? Would appreciate all the help I can get.
thanks in advance
There is an operator available in OWB process flow which is called user_defined. you can call any script using this operator.
In our project, we receive timestamped files but OWB can only read a fixed (pre-defined) file name. We use perl script to rename the timestamped file to a fixed file name e.g. xyz23102008 to xyz. OWB reads this data file and then we use the "user defined" operator in process flow to call the perl script (executed by a batch file) which renames the file xyz23102008 to xyz. You can use DOS commands as well rather than a perl script to be executed for this purpose in a batch file.
We are using OWB 10g R2.
Hope it must be helpful for you.
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File Adapter: Dynamic file name
Hello,
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Edited by: Christian Riekenberg on Mar 10, 2009 4:05 PMyour file name needs to be
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Hello All,
I am using Dynamic file name function in my message mapping. Below is the code that I am using inside UDF:
DynamicConfiguration conf = (DynamicConfiguration) container.getTransformationParameters().get(StreamTransformationConstants.DYNAMIC_CONFIGURATION);
DynamicConfigurationKey key = DynamicConfigurationKey.create("http://sap.com/xi/XI/System/File","FileName");
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Now the questions is as per my requirement, I need to generate multiple file names. Can some one help me how can change the above code for catering multiple returns
Thanks
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MoorthyHello,
Now the questions is as per my requirement, I need to generate multiple file names. Can some one help me how can change the above code for catering multiple returns
If you are using multi-mapping (0..n), only one will be accessed. See link below from SAP Help
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/43/09b16006526e72e10000000a422035/frameset.htm
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Dynamic file Name Generation-problem
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in My Idoc to File..
i want to generate Dynamic File Name ..
i put the logic in Message mapping -java intialization section
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