What is the usage of .mfctl and .mdir files in the mfs directory of Ab Initio?

biyyanimv

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• Mar 8th, 2009

.mfctl and .mdir are both related to multifile system. .mfctl extension of control file created when we are using the MFS. The file extension .mfctl will contain the URLs of all the data partitions. The file with the extension .mdir will contain the URL of the control file used by MFS

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sreenivasamurthy

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• Jun 20th, 2007

Normally to maintain short term historical data llike 3-6 months etc. there is no need to go to DWH. For maintaining long ternm historical data i.e., 3-6 years etc., You need to go to DWH. In DWH we w...

ankur

• May 26th, 2007

We can have active and inactive records in data warehouse to maintain history.

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Satish Kumar

• Jun 9th, 2007

Hi Praveen,In Ab Initio there is no In Built Schedular in the GDE...Most of them are using cron tab or specific tools for scheduling 1)AutoSys or2)Maestro.

ramu

• Feb 19th, 2007

You dont have schedule in abinitio unlike informatica here in this tool we need to buy the third party tool namely autosys for scheduling

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naveen

• May 15th, 2006

$#  - No of positional parameters$? - the exit status of the last executed command.

cndraa

• May 13th, 2006

Then what is $# and $? ...

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