ibm-cloud - Does IBM Dataworks support CSV delimiters?

Question

Does the IBM DataWorks Data Load API support CSV files as input source?

Answer 1

The answer is yes. To accomplish this, you have provide the structure of the file in the request payload. This is explained in the API documentation Creating a Data Load Activity. This an excerpt of the documentation:

Within the columns array, specify the columns to provision data from. If Analytics for Hadoop, Amazon S3, or SoftLayer Object Storage is the source, you must specify the columns. If you specify columns, only the columns that you specify are provisioned to the target...

The Data Load application included in DataWorks is provided just as an example and assumes the input file has 2 columns, the first being an INTEGER and the second one a VARCHAR.

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