When you configure hierarchical groups of output ports, the Integration Service writes to the groups of ports instead of writing to the OutputBuffer port. The Integration Service writes to the groups of ports regardless of the output type you define for the transformation.

If an Unstructured Data transformation has the File output type, and you have not defined group output ports, you must link the OutputBuffer port to a downstream transformation. Otherwise, the mapping is invalid. The OutputBuffer port contains the output file name when the

Data Transformation

service writes the output file.

Enable Dynamic Service Name to pass a service name to the Unstructured Data transformation in the Service Name input port. When you enable Dynamic Service Name, the Designer creates the Service Name input port.

You must configure a service name with the Unstructured Data transformation or enable the Dynamic Service Name option. Otherwise the mapping is invalid.

For UTF-8 encoding to work, ensure that the following settings are enabled:

The Integration Service is set to unicode mode, with the
INFA_CODEPAGENAME
environment variable set to
UTF-8
.
Set the
Data Transformation
service encoding to UTF-8.
The flat file input or output is set to UTF-8.