Running jobs with the Kitchen utility

In Chapter 2, Getting Familiar with Spoon, you learned how to run transformations in production environments by using the Pan command-line utility. There is a counterpart tool for running jobs: the Kitchen command. Using Kitchen is no different than using Pan. The tool comes in two flavors: Kitchen.bat and Kitchen.sh, for use in a Windows or a Linux system, respectively. Let's review the different options. The simplest way to run a job is to indicate the full path of the kjb file. You do so with the following syntax:

Kitchen.bat /file=<kjb file name>

You can also use the following command:

Kitchen.sh /file=<kjb file name>

For example, if you want to load the datamart from the command line in Windows, you can do so by running the following command:

Kitchen.bat /file=c:/pdi/load_datamart.kjb

Kitchen can receive the same parameters that Pan does; the most common are as follows:

• level: This indicates the log level. The syntax for setting the log level...