Kettle Internal.Job.Filename.Directory

Question

I am new to Pentaho Kettle and I am wondering what the Internal.Job.Filename.Directory is?

• Is it my SPoon.bat folder, or the job/xfrm folder i created?
• Is there a way I can change it to point to particular folder?

I am runnig spoon.bat in Windows XP.

Answer 1

Internal.Job.Filename.Directory is only set when you don't use a repository, and it is set automatically. You cannot set it manually.

How not to use an repository?

When you start Spoon, you get a dialog which asks for a repository. Just close this dialog with cancel and you're fine!

It took me a while to find this: I was wondering why Internal.Job.Filename.Directory was always empty. The repository was the cause.

It's documented here: http://jira.pentaho.com/browse/PDI-7434