User Guide : Managing Workspaces, Projects, and Integration Artifacts : DataConnect Integration Artifacts and Editors
 
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DataConnect Integration Artifacts and Editors
 
Integration Artifact
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Description
File Extension
Editors
Connection
A reusable source or target connection. These are design-time only artifacts. Snapshots of the connections are stored within the runtime files. There is a DataConnect preference that can be set for the default location of user defined connection.
.sc.xml*
.tc.xml*
Map Editor
Text Editor
XML Editor*
Dataset
 
These are design-time only artifacts. Snapshots of the connections are stored within the runtime files. There is a DataConnect preference that can be set for the default location of user defined connections.
.src.dataset
.trg.dataset
Map Editor
Text Editor
JSON Editor (default)
Map
Transformation of a source file or table. Includes field-to-field mapping, as well as event actions and conditional expressions to manipulate data.
.map
.map.xml*
Map Editor
Text Editor
JSON Editor
XML Editor*
Map Runtime
A file containing all of the runtime information related to a map. Tis includes the source and target connections, logging information, macro sets and macro overrides. Most of the runtime content is found on the Map Editor source, target and configuration tabs.
.map.rtc
.tf.xml*
Map Editor
Text Editor
JSON Editor
XML Editor*
Process
Workflow that includes steps for maps, scripts, application executables, and components.
.process
.ip.xml*
Process Editor
Text Editor
JSON Editor
XML Editor*
Process Runtime
A file containing all of the runtime information related to a process. This includes any transformation, macrosets and macro overrides. Most of the runtime content is found on the process editor configuration tab.
.process.rtc
.ip.rtc (optional)
Process Editor
Text Editor
JSON Editor
XML Editor*
Schema
The arrangement of fields in a record in a data file, either source or target. This includes field length, record length, field data types, and other field properties, such as decimal and scale.
.schema
.ss.xml*
.ds.xml*
Schema Designer
Text Editor
JSON Editor (default editor for .schema files)
XML Editor*
Script Library
Reusable, user written functions and expressions.
.ezscript
.rifl*
.bas*
Script Editor
Text Editor
JSON Editor
XML Editor*
Package
A deployment package is an archive file that contains all the artifacts that are required to run a process or map. The format of a package is a .djar file. There is a DataConnect preference that can be set for the default location of deployment packages.
.djar
Package Manager
Package Inventory
A list of the files and other options included in a package. The document is a design-time only document, created to facilitate recreating a new package with updated artifacts.
.inv
Package Manager
Text Editor
XML Editor*
Profile
An engine profiling output file. Profiling can be turned on for any map or process to help find integration performance problems. Profiling options can be found on the Configuration tab in the Map or Process Editor.
.out
Engine Profiler
SQL File
 
Contains reusable SQL query code or code that is used to modify the contents of an associated database, such as the statements, that are needed to create or modify the structure of the database.
.sqlquery
Map Editor
Test Editor
Session
 
A reusable database session part container. Can be used to share a single database session between multiple process steps.
.session
Process Editor
JSON Editor (default)
*Document Schema
An electronic document schema that conforms to the various industry standards for defining financial (SWISS), health care (HIPAA, HL7), and e-commerce (EDI) interchanges.
.ds.xml*
Schema Designer
Text Editor
XML Editor*
Extract
 
Contains the data that must be extracted from semi-structured text files and convert the data into a tabular format that can be used as a source in Map Editor.
.extract
Content Extractor Editor
 
Throughout this documentation, you may come across notes with a Data Integrator v9 icon. These notes apply only to Data Integrator v9 Compatible Artifacts, and if you are working with the v9 Comparability Mode preference turned on.