Designing jobs that use the File connector

You can use the File connector to develop jobs that read data from and write data to files.

1. Define a job that includes the File connector.
2. Define a connection to a file system.
3. To set up the File Connector stage to read data from a file, complete the following steps:
   1. Set up column definitions.
   2. Configure the File connector as a source.
   3. Optional: Create a reject link to manage rejected data.
   4. Optional: Read partitioned data.
4. To set up the File Connector stage to write data to a file, complete the following steps:
   1. Set up column definitions.
   2. Configure the File connector as a target.
   3. Optional: Write partitioned data.
5. Compile and run the job.