Map settings

Map settings dictate the behavior of the entire map-across all input and output cards.

The following map settings provide the ability to control aspects of the map's execution such as:

• MapAudit

  This setting specifies options to create an audit of the map's execution, data, and execution settings, in addition to the level of detail of the audit.

• MapTrace

  For troubleshooting purposes during development, this setting specifies options to create a trace and the level of detail of the trace.

• WorkSpace

  This setting specifies the location (in a file or in memory) of the workspace and the amount of memory to allocate for the execution of the map.

• Retry

  If compiled map files, work files, audit log files, or trace files that are needed during map execution cannot be opened, this setting specifies whether to attempt to run the map again and the interval of time between each attempt.

  Almost all of the source, target, and map setting parameters can be overridden with different values at run time. This capability is available for all modes of map execution.

  This allows you to change map execution parameters for different deployment environments, sources, and destinations (such as development, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production environments) without having to modify and recompile the maps.