Required. The HDFS connection used to find the HDFS storage target.

If changes are made to the available HDFS connections, refresh the browser or log out and log back in to the Mass Ingestion tool.

The prefix added to the names of the target files.

Enter a string. You can enter alphanumeric and underscore characters. The prefix is not case sensitive.

The suffix added to the names of the target files.

Enter a string. You can enter alphanumeric and underscore characters. The prefix is not case sensitive.

Required. The target directory on HDFS. A sub-directory is created under the ingestion directory for each source that is ingested.

If the specified directory already exists, the directory is replaced.

For example, you can enter

/temp

. A source table named

PRODUCT

is ingested to the directory

/temp/PRODUCT/

.

Required. The compressed file format that stores the target files. You can select None, Gzip, Bzip2, LZO, Snappy, or Custom. If you select Custom, enter the compression codec. Default is None.

If you select custom compression, enter the fully qualified class name implementing the Hadoop CompressionCodec interface.

The delimiters used to separate data in the target files. You can select comma, semicolon, space, tab, or other. If you select Other, you can define a custom delimiter.

Required if you choose

Other

for the delimiter. Enter a custom delimiter.

Required if you enable incremental load. Select Append or Overwrite. Append mode appends the incremental data to the target. Overwrite mode overwrites the data in the target with the incremental data. Default is Append.