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Option
| Description
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File Pickup
| The file ingestion task supports the following file pickup methods:
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Source Directory
| Directory from where files are transferred. The Secure Agent must be able to access the directory.
The use of slashes around the source folder path differs between connectors. Using slashes incorrectly will result in connection failures. For more information, see the Knowledge Base article
625869.
File listener can access files and directories on network shares with support for NFS and CIFS.
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Add Parameters
| Create an expression to add it as a
Source Directory parameter. For more information, see
Add Parameters.
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Include files from sub-folders
| This applies when
File Pickup is
By Pattern . Transfer files from all subfolders under the defined source directory.
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File Pattern
| This applies when
File Pickup is
By Pattern .
File name pattern used to select the files to transfer. Based on the file pattern that you have selected, enter the file name patterns.
The following file patterns are available:
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File Date
| This applies when
File Pickup is
By Pattern . A date and time expression for filtering the files to transfer.
Select one of the following options:
For example, if you schedule the
file ingestion task to run weekly and want to filter for the files that were modified in the previous week, set
Days before today to 7. The task will pick up any file with a date between 7 days ago and the date on which it runs.
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Time Zone
| This applies when
File Pickup is
By Pattern . If you selected a
File Date option, enter the time zone of the location where the files are located.
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File Size
| This applies when
File Pickup is
By Pattern . Filters the files to transfer based on file size. Enter the file size, select the file size unit, and filter options.
Select one of the following filter options:
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The file path containing the list of files
| This applies when
File Pickup is
By File List . Select this option to provide the path that contains the list of files to pick up and enter the file path.
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File list
| This applies when
File Pickup is
By File List . Select this option to provide the list of files to pick up and enter a comma-separated list of file names.
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Skip Duplicate Files
| Indicates whether to skip duplicate files. If you select this option, the file ingestion task does not transfer files that have the same name and creation date as another file. The file ingestion task marks these files as duplicate in the job log. If you do not select this option, the task transfers all files, even files with duplicate names and creation dates.
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Check file stability
| Indicates whether to verify that a file is stable before a file ingestion task attempts to pick it. The task skips unstable files it detects in the current run.
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Stability check interval
| This applies when you enable the
Check file stability option. Time in seconds that a file ingestion task waits to check the file stability.
For example, if the stability time is 15 seconds, the file ingestion task detects all the files in the source folder that match the defined file pattern, waits for 15 seconds, and processes only the stable files.
The interval ranges between 10 seconds to 300 seconds. Default is 10 seconds.
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Batch Size
| The maximum number of files a
file ingestion task transfers in a batch.
Default is 5.
The maximum batch size varies, based on the following conditions:
Consider the following guidelines when you define the batch size:
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After File Pickup
| Determines what to do with source files after the files transfer.
The following options are available:
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