Input rules are a set of conditions in a dynamic port that define the ports to generate. You can configure input rules to filter the columns that a dynamic port receives and to create generated ports for the filtered columns. Use input rules to propagate specific columns downstream in the mapping.
To process certain columns or certain type of columns in a dynamic port, define input rules to filter the columns based on a name, data type, pattern, or complex data type definition. For example, an employee database table has columns with decimal, string, and date/time data type. You need to process data only for columns that begin with SAL and of data type decimal. Create a dynamic port and define input rules to include only the columns that meet this condition.