AB Initio Online Training Course

Introduction to Abinitio
Abinitio Architecture
Graph Programming
Introduction to .dat and .dml files
Partition Components
Braod Cast
Partition by Expression
Partition by range
Partition by community
Partition by percentage
Partition by Round Robin
Departition Components
Concatenate
Gather
Interleave
Merge
Multifile System(MFS)
Types of parallelism
Layouts
Sort Components

 Sort
Sort with in groups
Sample
Partition by key and sort
Transform Components
Filter by expression
Aggregate
Scan
Rollup
Denormalize Sorted
Normalize Reformat
Match sorted
Dedup sorted
Working with Databases
Database components
Run SQL
Input Table
Output Table
Truncate Table
Update table

Phase and check Points

Miscellaneous component
Gather logs
Run program
Redefine format
Trash
Replicate
Dataset Components
Input File
Output File
Lookup File
Intermediate File
FTP Components
FTP From
FTP To
Compress Components
Compress
Uncompress
Gzip
Gunzip
Validate Component

 Check Order
Generate Records Generate Random bytes
Compare Records
Compute Check Sum
Compare Check Sum
Translate components
Record XML
Write XML
Project and Sandbox
Performance Tuning

Overview
Ab Initio means Starts From the Beginning. Ab-Initio software works
with the client-server model.
The client is called Graphical Development Environment (you can call it
GDE).It
resides on user desktop.The server or back-end is called Co-Operating
System. The Co-Operating System can reside in a mainframe or unix
remote machine.

FAQs
What is the relation between EME , GDE and Co-operating system ?
Ans. EME is said as enterprise metdata env, GDE as graphical devlopment
env and Co-operating sytem can be said as asbinitio server relation b/w this
CO-OP, EME AND GDE is as fallows Co operating system is the Abinitio

Server. this co-op is installed on perticular O.S platform that is called

NATIVE O.S .comming to the EME, its i just as repository in informatica ,
its hold the metadata,trnsformations,db config files source and targets
informations. comming to GDE its is end user envirinment where we can
devlop
the
graphs(mapping
just
like
in
informatica)
desinger uses the GDE and designs the graphs and save to the EME or Sand
box it is at user side.where EME is ast server side.
What is the use of aggregation when we have rollup as we know rollup
component in abinitio is used to summirize group of data record. then
where we will use aggregation ?
Ans: Aggregation and Rollup both can summerise the data but rollup is
much more convenient to use. In order to understand how a particular
summerisation being rollup is much more explanatory compared to
aggregate. Rollup can do some other functionalities like input and output
filtering
of
records.
Aggregate and rollup perform same action, rollup display intermediat result
in main memory, Aggregate does not support intermediat result what are
kinds of layouts does ab initio supports
Basically there are serial and parallel layouts supported by AbInitio. A graph
can have both at the same time. The parallel one depends on the degree of
data parallelism. If the multi-file system is 4-way parallel then a component
in a graph can run 4 way parallel if the layout is defined such as its same as
the degree of parallelism.
How can you run a graph infinitely?
To run a graph infinitely, the end script in the graph should call the .ksh file
of the graph. Thus if the name of the graph is abc.mp then in the end script
of
the
graph
there
should
be
a
call
to
abc.ksh.
Like this the graph will run infinitely.
How do you add default rules in transformer?
Double click on the transform parameter of parameter tab page of
component properties, it will open transform editor. In the transform editor
click on the Edit menu and then select Add Default Rules from the
dropdown. It will show two options 1) Match Names 2) Wildcard.

Do you know what a local lookup is?

If your lookup file is a multifile and partioned/sorted on a particular key then
local lookup function can be used ahead of lookup function call. This is local
to a particular partition depending on the key.
Lookup File consists of data records which can be held in main memory.
This makes the transform function to retrieve the records much faster than
retirving from disk. It allows the transform component to process the data
records of multiple files fastly.
What is the difference between look-up file and look-up, with a relevant
example?
Generally Lookup file represents one or more serial files(Flat files). The
amount of data is small enough to be held in the memory. This allows
transform functions to retrive records much more quickly than it could
retrive
from
Disk.
A lookup is a component of abinitio graph where we can store data and
retrieve
it
by
using
a
key
parameter.
A lookup file is the physical file where the data for the lookup is stored.
How many components in your most complicated graph? It depends the type
of components you us. Usually avoid using much complicated transform
function in a graph.
Explain what is lookup?
Lookup is basically a specific dataset which is keyed. This can be used to
mapping values as per the data present in a particular file (serial/multi file).
The dataset can be static as well dynamic ( in case the lookup file is being
generated in previous phase and used as lookup file in current phase).
Sometimes, hash-joins can be replaced by using reformat and lookup if one
of the input to the join contains less number of records with slim record
length.
AbInitio has built-in functions to retrieve values using the key for the lookup
What
is
a
ramp
limit?
The limit parameter contains an integer that represents a number of reject
events

The ramp parameter contains a real number that represents a rate of reject
events
in
the
number
of
records
processed.
no of bad records allowed = limit + no of records*ramp.
ramp is basically the percentage value (from 0 to 1)
This two together provides the threshold value of bad records.
Have you worked with packages?
Multistage transform components by default uses packages. However user
can create his own set of functions in a transfer function and can include this
in other transfer functions.

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