The ETL Metadata Injection step inserts metadata into your template transformation through a step that supports metadata injection. See the ETL metadata injection article for details on how metadata is injected or if you are not familiar with the term "template transformation".
The following table specifies which steps contain fields supporting metadata injection:
| Step | Version Introduced | Fields Supporting Metadata Injection |
|---|---|---|
| Add XML | 7.0 | All fields |
| Add a Checksum | 8.2 | All fields |
| Annotate Stream | 7.0 | All fields |
| AMQP Consumer | 8.2 | All fields |
| AMQP Producer | 8.2 | All fields |
| Append Streams | 7.0 | All fields |
| Avro Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| Avro Output | 8.0 | All fields |
| Cassandra Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| Cassandra Output | 7.0 | All fields |
| Combination Lookup / Update | 7.0 | All fields |
| Concat Fields | 5.1 | All fields |
| Copybook Input | 9.0 | All fields |
| CouchDB Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| CSV File Input | 4.1 | See CSV File Input for a list of supported fields |
| Data Grid | 5.1 | All fields |
| Data Validator | 7.0 | All fields |
| Delete | 9.0 | All fields |
| Dimension Lookup-Update | 7.1 | All fields |
| ETL metadata injection | 7.0 | All fields. See Injecting metadata into the ETL Metadata Injection step for exceptions. |
| Execute Row SQL Script | 8.2 | All fields |
| Execute SQL Script | 8.2 | All fields |
| Filter Rows | 7.0 | All fields |
| Fixed File Input | 4.1 | See Fixed File Input for a list of supported fields |
| Get Data from XML | 5.0 | See Get Data from XML for a list of supported fields |
| Get records from stream | 8.0 | All fields |
| Get rows from result | 8.0 | All fields |
| Get System Info | 8.2 | All fields |
| Get Table Names | 7.0 | All fields |
| Get Variable | 7.0 | All fields |
| Google Analytics | 6.1 | All fields |
| Greenplum Load | 7.0 | All fields |
| Group By | 5.0 | All fields |
| GZIP CSV Input | 5.1 | All fields |
| Hadoop File Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| Hadoop File Output | 7.0 | All fields |
| HBase Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| HBase Output | 7.0 | All fields |
| HBase Row Decoder | 7.0 | All fields |
| If Field Value is Null | 7.0 | All fields |
| Insert/Update | 7.0 | All fields |
| JMS Consumer | 8.2 | All fields |
| JMS Producer | 8.2 | All fields |
| Join Rows (Cartesian product) | 7.0 | All fields |
| JSON Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| JSON Output | 5.2 | All fields |
| Kafka consumer | 8.0 | All fields |
| Kafka Producer | 8.0 | All fields |
| Kinesis Consumer | 8.3 | All fields |
| Kinesis Producer | 8.3 | All fields |
| MapReduce Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| MapReduce Output | 7.0 | All fields |
| Memory Group By | 7.0 | All fields |
| Merge Join | 7.0 | All fields |
| Merge rows (diff) | 7.0 | All fields |
| Microsoft Access input | 5.0 | See Microsoft Access input for a list of supported fields |
| Microsoft Excel Input | 4.1 | See Microsoft Excel Input for a list of supported fields |
| Microsoft Excel Output | 5.1 | All fields (as of 6.1) |
| Microsoft Excel Writer | 5.3 | See Microsoft Excel Writer for a list of supported fields |
| MongoDB Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| MongoDB Output | 7.0 | All fields |
| MQTT Consumer | 8.1 | All fields |
| MQTT Producer | 8.1 | All fields |
| Multiway Merge Join | 7.0 | All fields |
| MySQL Bulk Loader | 7.0 | All fields |
| Null If | 7.0 | All fields |
| Oracle Bulk Loader | 7.0 | All fields |
| ORC Input | 8.1 | All fields |
| ORC Output | 8.1 | All fields |
| Parquet Input | 8.0 | All fields |
| Parquet Output | 8.0 | All fields |
| Pentaho Reporting Output | 5.0 | All fields |
| PostgreSQL Bulk Loader | 5.1 | All fields |
| Read metadata from Copybook | 9.0 | All fields |
| Replace in String | 7.0 | All fields |
| Row Denormaliser | 4.2 | All fields (as of 7.0) |
| Row Normaliser | 4.2 | See Row Normaliser for a list of supported fields |
| S3 CSV Input | 6.1 | All fields |
| S3 File Output | 6.1 | All fields |
| Salesforce bulk operation | 10.0 | All fields |
| Salesforce Input | 8.3 | All fields |
| Select Values | 4.1 | All fields |
| Set Field Value | 8.2 | All fields |
| Set Field Value to a Constant | 8.2 | All fields |
| Shared Dimension | 7.0 | All fields |
| Sort rows | 5.0 | All fields |
| Sorted Merge | 7.0 | All fields |
| Split Fields | 5.0 | All fields (as of 6.1) |
| Splunk Input | 7.0 | All fields |
| Splunk Output | 7.0 | All fields |
| Stream Lookup | 6.1 | All fields |
| String Operations | 9.0 | All fields |
| Strings cut | 8.3 | All fields |
| Switch / Case | 7.0 | All fields |
| Synchronize After Merge | 7.0 | All fields |
| Table Input | 5.2 | See Table Input for a list of supported fields |
| Table Output | 5.1 | See Table Output for a list of supported fields |
| Text File Input | 5.0 | All fields |
| Text File Output | 5.2 | All fields |
| Update | 7.0 | All fields |
| User Defined Java Class | 8.2 | All fields |
| User Defined Java Expression | 5.2 | All fields |
| Value Mapper | 6.1 | All fields |
| Vertica Bulk Loader | 7.0 | All fields |
| XML Join | 7.0 | All fields |
| XML Output | 6.1 | All fields |