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  1. Preface
  2. Connectors and connections
  3. Connection configuration
  4. ActiveCampaign connection properties
  5. Adabas CDC Connection Properties
  6. Adabas connection properties
  7. Adaptive Insights Connection Properties
  8. Adobe Analytics connection properties
  9. Adobe Analytics Mass Ingestion connection properties
  10. Adobe Experience Platform connection properties
  11. Advanced FTP Connection properties
  12. Advanced FTP V2 connection properties
  13. Advanced FTPS connection properties
  14. Advanced FTPS V2 connection properties
  15. Advanced SFTP connection properties
  16. Advanced SFTP V2 connection properties
  17. Amazon Athena connection properties
  18. Amazon Aurora connection properties
  19. Amazon DynamoDB connection properties
  20. Amazon DynamoDB V2 connection properties
  21. Amazon Kinesis connection properties
  22. Amazon Redshift connection properties
  23. Amazon Redshift V2 connection properties
  24. Amazon S3 connection properties
  25. Amazon S3 V2 connection properties
  26. Amplitude connection properties
  27. AMQP connection properties
  28. Anaplan V2 connection properties
  29. Ariba V2 connection properties
  30. AS2 connection properties
  31. BigMachines connection properties
  32. Birst Cloud Connect connection properties
  33. Box connection properties
  34. Business 360 connection properties
  35. Business 360 Events connection properties
  36. Business 360 FEP connection properties
  37. CallidusCloud Commissions connection properties
  38. CallidusCloud File Processor connection properties
  39. Cassandra V2 connection properties
  40. Chatter connection properties
  41. Cloud Integration Hub connection properties
  42. Concur connection properties
  43. Concur V2 connection properties
  44. Couchbase connection properties
  45. Coupa connection properties
  46. Coupa V2 connection properties
  47. Cvent connection properties
  48. Databricks connection properties
  49. Datacom CDC Connection Properties
  50. Datacom Connection Properties
  51. Db2 Data Map connection properties
  52. Db2 for i CDC connection properties
  53. Db2 for i connection properties
  54. Db2 for i Database Ingestion connection properties
  55. Db2 for LUW CDC connection properties
  56. Db2 for LUW Database Ingestion connection properties
  57. Db2 for z/OS Bulk Load connection properties
  58. Db2 for z/OS CDC connection properties
  59. Db2 for z/OS connection properties
  60. Db2 for zOS Database Ingestion connection properties
  61. Db2 for z/OS Image Copy connection properties
  62. Db2 for z/OS Unload File connection properties
  63. DB2 Loader connection properties
  64. Db2 Warehouse on Cloud connection properties
  65. Domo connection properties
  66. Dropbox connection properties
  67. Elasticsearch connection properties
  68. Eloqua Bulk API connection properties
  69. Eloqua REST connection properties
  70. FHIR connection properties
  71. File List connection properties
  72. File Processor connection properties
  73. FileIO connection properties
  74. Flat file connections
  75. FTP/SFTP connections
  76. Google Ads connection properties
  77. Google Analytics connection properties
  78. Google Analytics Mass Ingestion connection properties
  79. Google BigQuery connection properties
  80. Google BigQuery V2 connection properties
  81. Google Bigtable connection properties
  82. Google Cloud Storage connection properties
  83. Google Cloud Storage V2 connection properties
  84. Google Drive connection properties
  85. Google PubSub - Streaming Ingestion and Replication connection properties
  86. Google PubSub connection properties
  87. Google PubSub V2 connection properties
  88. Google Sheets connection properties
  89. Google Sheets V2 connection properties
  90. Greenplum connection properties
  91. Hadoop connection properties
  92. Hadoop Files connection properties
  93. Hadoop Files V2 connection properties
  94. Hive connection properties
  95. HubSpot connection properties
  96. IBM MQ connection properties
  97. IDMS CDC connection properties
  98. IDMS connection properties
  99. IMS CDC Connection Properties
  100. IMS connection properties
  101. JD Edwards EnterpriseOne connection properties
  102. JDBC connection properties
  103. JDBC V2 connection properties
  104. JIRA Cloud connection properties
  105. Jira connection properties
  106. JMS connection properties
  107. JSON Target connection properties
  108. Kafka connection properties
  109. Klaviyo connection properties
  110. LDAP connection properties
  111. Magento V1 connection properties
  112. Mailchimp connection properties
  113. Marketo V3 connection properties
  114. Microsoft Access connection properties
  115. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage connection properties
  116. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V2 connection properties
  117. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 connection properties
  118. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB SQL API connection properties
  119. Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connection properties
  120. Microsoft Azure DocumentDB Connection Properties
  121. Microsoft Azure Event Hub connection properties
  122. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse - Database Ingestion connection properties
  123. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse connection properties
  124. Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse V2 connection properties
  125. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics Database Ingestion connection properties
  126. Microsoft Azure Synapse SQL connection properties
  127. Microsoft CDM Folders V2 connection properties
  128. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations connection properties
  129. Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Sales connections
  130. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Mass Ingestion connection properties
  131. Microsoft Dynamics AX V3 connection properties
  132. Microsoft Dynamics CRM connection properties
  133. Microsoft Dynamics NAV connection properties
  134. Microsoft Excel connection properties
  135. Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse connection properties
  136. Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse connection properties
  137. Microsoft Fabric OneLake connection properties
  138. Microsoft Power BI Connection Properties
  139. Microsoft SharePoint connection properties
  140. Microsoft Sharepoint Online connection properties
  141. Microsoft SQL Server CDC connection properties
  142. Microsoft SQL Server connection properties
  143. Mixpanel connection properties
  144. MLLP connection properties
  145. MongoDB Mass Ingestion connection properties
  146. MongoDB connection properties
  147. MongoDB V2 connection properties
  148. MQTT connection properties
  149. MRI Software connection properties
  150. MySQL CDC connection properties
  151. MySQL connection properties
  152. Netezza connection properties
  153. NetSuite connection properties
  154. NetSuite Mass Ingestion connection properties
  155. NetSuite RESTlet V2 connection properties
  156. NICE Satmetrix connection properties
  157. OData connections properties
  158. OData consumer connection properties
  159. OData V2 Protocol Reader connection properties
  160. OData V2 Protocol Writer connection properties
  161. ODBC connection properties
  162. OpenAir connection properties
  163. Open Table connection properties
  164. Oracle connection properties
  165. Oracle Autonomous Database connections
  166. Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher connection properties
  167. Oracle CDC V2 connection properties
  168. Oracle Cloud Object Storage connections
  169. Oracle CRM Cloud V1 connections properties
  170. Oracle CRM On Demand connection properties
  171. Oracle Database Ingestion connection properties
  172. Oracle Financials Cloud V1 connection properties
  173. Oracle Fusion Cloud Mass Ingestion connection properties
  174. Oracle HCM Cloud V1 connection properties
  175. Pinecone connection properties
  176. PostgreSQL CDC connection properties
  177. PostgreSQL connection properties
  178. Power BI connection properties
  179. QuickBooks V2 Connection Properties
  180. Redis connection properties
  181. REST API connection properties
  182. REST V2 connection properties
  183. REST V3 Connection Properties
  184. Salesforce Analytics connection properties
  185. Salesforce Commerce Cloud connection properties
  186. Salesforce connection properties
  187. Salesforce Data Cloud connection properties
  188. Salesforce Marketing Cloud connection properties
  189. Salesforce Mass Ingestion connection properties
  190. Salesforce Pardot connection properties
  191. SAP connection properties
  192. SAP ADSO Writer connection properties
  193. SAP BAPI connection properties
  194. SAP BW Connector connection properties
  195. SAP BW BEx Query connection properties
  196. SAP HANA CDC Connection Properties
  197. SAP HANA connection properties
  198. SAP HANA Database Ingestion connection properties
  199. SAP IQ connection properties
  200. SAP Mass Ingestion connection properties
  201. SAP OData V2 connection properties
  202. SAP OData V4 connection properties
  203. SAP ODP Extractor connection properties
  204. SAP Table Connector connection properties
  205. SAS connection properties
  206. Satmetrix connection properties
  207. Sequential File connection properties
  208. ServiceNow connection properties
  209. ServiceNow Mass Ingestion connection properties
  210. Shopify connection properties
  211. Snowflake connection properties
  212. Snowflake Data Cloud connection properties
  213. Stripe connection properties
  214. SuccessFactors LMS connection properties
  215. Successfactor ODATA connection properties
  216. SuccessFactors SOAP connection properties
  217. SurveyMonkey connection properties
  218. Tableau V2 connection properties
  219. Tableau V3 connection properties
  220. Teradata connection properties
  221. UKGPro V2 connection properties
  222. UltiPro connection properties
  223. VSAM CDC connection properties
  224. VSAM connection properties
  225. Web Service Consumer connection properties
  226. WebServices V2 connection properties
  227. Workday connection properties
  228. Workday Mass Ingestion connection properties
  229. Workday V2 connection properties
  230. Xactly connection properties
  231. Xero connection properties
  232. XML Source connection properties
  233. XML Target connection properties
  234. Yellowbrick Data Warehouse connection properties
  235. Zendesk connection properties
  236. Zendesk Mass Ingestion connection properties
  237. Zendesk V2 connection properties
  238. Zuora AQuA Connection properties
  239. Zuora connection properties
  240. Zuora Multi-Entity connection properties
  241. Zuora REST V2 connection properties

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Flat file connection properties

Flat file connection properties

Defines the properties you need to assign to for a flat file source connection.
The following table describes the flat file connection properties:
Connection Property
Description
Connection Name
A name for the connection. This name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -
Spaces at the beginning or end of the name are trimmed and are not saved as part of the name. Maximum length is 100 characters. Connection names are not case sensitive.
Description
An optional description for the connection. Maximum length is 255 characters.
Type
The type of connection. Select the
Flat File
 connection type.
Runtime Environment
Runtime environment that contains the Secure Agent to use for accessing the flat files.
Or for
Data Integration
, a serverless runtime environment that contains the mounted EFS or NFS directories which contain the flat files.
Do not select a runtime environment with Secure Agents that run on NTT. A flat file connection cannot use a Secure Agent that runs on NTT.
Directory
Directory where the flat file is stored. Must be accessible by all Secure Agents in the selected runtime environment.
Enter the full directory or click
Browse
 to locate and select the directory.
When you use the connection, you can select a file that's contained in the directory or in any of its subdirectories.
This directory is also used in any data disks configured for a serverless runtime environment.
Maximum length is 100 characters. Directory names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters:
/ \ : _ ~
The directory is the service URL for this connection type.
On Windows, the
Browse for Directory
 dialog box doesn't display mapped drives. You can browse My Network Places in Windows Explorer to locate the directory and copy the location from the address bar or enter the directory name in the following format:
\\<server_name>\<directory_path>
. If network directories do not display, you can configure a login for the Secure Agent service. This functionality might not be available on newer versions of Windows.
Do not include the name of the flat file. You specify the file name when you create the task.
In a serverless runtime environment, this directory must be one of the mounted directories or their subdirectories in the data disk.
Browse button
Use to locate and select the directory where flat files are stored.
Date Format
Date format for date fields in the flat file. Default date format is:
MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss
Code Page
The code page of the system that hosts the flat file. Select one of the following code pages:
  • MS Windows Latin 1. Select for ISO 8859-1 Western European data
  • UTF-8. Select for Unicode data
  • UTF-16 encoding of Unicode (Big Endian)
  • UTF-16 encoding of Unicode (Lower Endian)
  • Shift-JIS. Select for double-byte character data.
  • ISO 8859-15 Latin 9 (Western European)
  • ISO 8859-2 Eastern European
  • ISO 8859-3 Southeast European
  • ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic
  • ISO 8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
  • IBM EBCDIC International Latin-1
  • Japanese EUC (with \ <-> Yen mapping
  • IBM EBCDIC Japanese
  • IBM EBCDIC Japanese CP939
  • PC Japanese SJIS-78 syntax (IBM-942)
  • PC Japanese SJIS-90 (IBM-943)
  • MS Windows Traditional Chinese, superset of Big 5
  • Taiwan Big-5 (w/o euro update)
  • Chinese EUC
  • ISO 8859-8 Hebrew
  • PC Hebrew (old)
  • PC Hebrew (w/o euro update)
  • EBCDIC Hebrew (updated with new sheqel, control characters)
  • IBM EBCDIC US English IBM037
  • UTF-32 encoding of Unicode (Lower Endian)
  • ISO 8859-1 Western European.
  • IBM EBCDIC French
  • ISO 8859-10 Latin 6 (Nordic) *
  • EBCDIC Finland, Sweden
  • MOS-DOS Thai, superset of TIS 620
  • 7-bit ASCII
  • EBCDIC Finland, Sweden (w/euro update)
  • MS-DOS Windows Latin 2 (Central Europe)
  • Japanese EBCDIC-Kana Fujitsu
In advanced mappings, flat file objects in cloud storage connections must use UTF-8 encoding.
If the file contains supplementary characters with UTF-16 encoding, the task fails.
When you use a flat file connection with the Shift-JIS code page and a UTF data object, be sure to install fonts that fully support Unicode.
* Data preview uses a similar ISO 8859-4 Scandinavian/Baltic code page, but runtime processing uses ISO 8859-10 Latin 6 (Nordic), so data preview and runtime encoding won't match.
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