Chapter 3 Building Information Liquidity Diagrams


Flat Files (ILM)

A flat file contains data and the format of data. Data format can be specified by a custom separator, a fixed length, or by columns that you define with a name and a data type.

A flat file can be linked to a transformation process via a data connection in order to model and document data transformations. For more information about data transformations, see the Building Data Transformation Diagrams chapter.

In the following example, FlatFile_CSV is linked to TransformationProcess via a data connection, which is turned linked to FlatFile_FixedLength via another data connection:


 


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