I would need to make a SSIS package which must to watch all the day long if a file come and then save into a variable that path+file.
FileWatcher task do that for me or better totally focusing this requirement in a conventional .NET Script using IO classes and all that sort of stuff???
Does anyone know of such a task than runs under both x86 and x64? (I know a FileWatcher add-in but it was built using Beta verisons of VS.NET)
TIA,
barkingdog
hi friends
I PLACED A FILE SYSTEM OBJECT WICH IS USED TO (COPY FILE/MOVE FILE SO ON )
Once copy file working fine second time copy file gives an errors
we need to check the condition if that folder contrain the dest.txt file we dont require to copy a file
other wise we need to copy
so i need a controle for checking a folder contrain the dest.txt file or not
regards
koti
I'm just learning 2005, so apologies in advance for the newb questions.
I am facing the following situation: Each day I have to upload an assortment of .csv files with variable names (eg. FileOneYYYYMMDD.csv, FileTwoYYYYMMDD.csv, etc.) to an FTP site, from the following directory structure:
Directory1
--- SubDirectoryA
--- SubDirectoryB
--- SubDirectoryC
I have accomplished this by setting up a package with three sequence containers (one for each subdirectory), each of which holds a Foreach loop (with a file enumerator configured as *.csv), each of which holds an FTP Task. This may not be the best way to do it, but it works. But if there's a better way I'd like to know!
Anyway, the wall I've run into is trying to move the .csv files to an archive directory after they've been uploaded. The wildcard variable doesn't seem to work with the File System Task, so I'm having a hard time figuring out how to move a bunch of variably named .csv files at different depths of a directory structure to an archive directory.
I've searched but can't seem to find a solution.
I have an XML Task to validate an xml document on disk (size: 78,464K). When I try to validate it I get error:
[XML Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.".
Task Manager shows 904,492K Physical Memory Available which drops to about 586,000K when the task fails. Any ideas?
I need to move files from one location to another location and rename the file using File System Task in SSIS..
There are curent file and archived files in the folder ( C:donwload)
and i need to grap only current file ( i.e Zipcode062407) and move to C:staging folder and rename it to currentzipcode.txt
how can i grap only current file and move it to the different folder and rename the file using File System Task in SSIS?
Is there a more clever way of doing this?
Currently I have to download a .gz file, uncompress and place it on a share with the current day's name (YYYYMMDD.txt).
This is how I'm doing this:
1 - FTP Task Manager to download file using expressions.
2 - Unzip file using a .bat file (Using 7zip). The uncompressed version of the file looks something like deedyyyy-mmddXXXXX.txt, where XXXXX is a bunch of numbers and letters that always changes, file version stamp from the vendor.
3 - Since I never know how the file is going to be called when I unzip it, I have to kick off another bat file to rename deedyyyy-mmddXXXXX.txt (*.txt) to 1.txt, then rename 1.txt to YYYYMMDD.txt, which is what I need for my ETL process.
4 - Archive zip file to another share
5 -Move YYYYMMDD.txt to another folder, so the ETL process can use it.
Basically, I'm not 100% sure about step 3, I'm renaming the files too many times and relying on bat files to do the job.
How would you guys handle such scenario? I'm not being able to use wildcards on File System Task.
I'm trying to realize a file system task that rename files from a
foreach loop container. So that means the task have a variable in the
source connection. This variable got the value (as an expression) of
"c:\.....\"+@[User::ForeachloopVar].
But an error message appears when i run it.The message is
File System Task: An error occurred with the following error message:
"The given path's format is not supported."
When i don´t use the variable in the source connection it works fine.
Anyone knows what might be the problem?
Thanks.
I am using file system task for deletion of text file from a specified folder.
but i want that one text file with name ="ssis.txt" and "ssrs.txt "should not get delete.
Is there any option or any expression that we can set and avoide the deletion of ssis.txt and ssrs.txt and still delete all the remaining all text file from a folder.
Please suggest any method or expression by example.
I'm having an issue with a file system task & I'm not sure whether it is user error on my part or a bug. I'm using a SQL Task to create a transaction log backup & I'm saving the name of the file in a result set which I then am mapping to a package level user variable. After that runs I'm trying to copy this .BAK file to another folder using the file system task. I'm setting the following properties on the file system task.
Isdestinationpathvariable: False
Then I have entered the static directory for the file move.
Operation: Tried it with both copy file & move file.
Issourcepathvariable: True
Sourceconnection: User::File_name
After setting this I immediately get a validation warning telling me the source directory cannot be empty. If I try to run it, it fails. The weird thing is that if I set up a connection manager to a flat file & pass my user variable in as the connection string to this connection. Then set the Issourcepathvariable to false & the Sourceconnection to this connection manager it works.
I also have gotten it to work by substituting an ftp task in place of the file system task. The ftp task has no problem when I set the Islocalpathvariable to true & then pass my variable to Localvariable property. This is why I believe there is some sort of issue with the file system task. Has anyone seen this before? Is there some sort of problem with the way I'm setting it up?
Thank you
Hello,
I am currently just starting to learn SSIS and I have a question on creating a directory using the File System Task.
Would I be able to create a directory where the directory name is generated and stored in a SSIS variable?
Any help is appreciated and thank you in advance for the assistance.
Eric
Hi,
I am using the 'File System Task ' to create a directory structure (e.g ..DB; ..DBLOG; ..DBBACKUP; )
I set following properties for the single tasks: UseDirectoryIfExists = True; Operation = Create Directory;
The task works fine before installing SP1 on the server. Now it creates an ERROR if the directory already exists and it is not empty.
SSIS package "testcreatedirectory.dtsx" starting.
Warning: 0xC002915A at Create DB Directory, File System Task: The Directory already exists.
Error: 0xC002F304 at Create DB Directory, File System Task: An error occurred with the following error message: "Das Verzeichnis ist nicht leer.". (The Directory is not empty.)
Task failed: Create DB Directory
Warning: 0x80019002 at Create Directorys: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (1) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
Warning: 0x80019002 at testcreatedirectory: The Execution method succeeded, but the number of errors raised (1) reached the maximum allowed (1); resulting in failure. This occurs when the number of errors reaches the number specified in MaximumErrorCount. Change the MaximumErrorCount or fix the errors.
SSIS package "testcreatedirectory.dtsx" finished: Failure.
Does anyone know if this is a known bug in SP1 or maybe its a feature and if there already exists a solution (maybe I have to set additional properties I have not discovered as yet).
Thanks in advance
Holger
Hi,
I am trying to transfer all the data from Excel to SQL Server using the Script Task (since I got some issue with the Data Flow -- that is a different story, let us come to this error), and after it got transferred I am deleting the source file using File System Task.
[File System Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "The process cannot access the file 'C:PrakashTestFilesNames.xls' because it is being used by another process."
The problem here is before transfer the data from Excel to SQL Server in the Script Task, the File System Task is getting executed, that is why it says that "it is being used by another process" like that.
I already set the TransactionOption as "Success" only for all the Tasks, but I don't know why the second task is getting executed before the first task completed his job.
If anyone have solution to this, pls let me know in detail ASAP.
Thanks & Regards,
Prakash Srinivasan
Wanting to use File System Task in SSIS to move files from
one location to another for archiving. I can't seem to figure out how to use a
wild card for the file name. It seems that I must specify the actual file name
which is a problem because only the first 4 letters in the file name remain a
constant.
Does anyone know how to use a wild card or a way to work
this in?
Hello,
I've been searching here and in Google, but haven't been able to find a good example of using the File System Task to copy files. I've seen Rafael Salas' blog http://rafael-salas.blogspot.com/2007/03/ssis-file-system-task-move-and-rename.html but that was moving and renaming.
What I want to do is copy a single file multiple times. Each time I copy the file and paste it, I will give the new file the name from the recordset that I have passed to it.
I used the Expressions to place the destination path and filename in a variable, but I am getting an "DestinationPath is not valid on Operation Type CopyFile".
An help/examples of how to do this would be appreciated.
Thank you.
-Gumbatman
Hi SSIS-fellows!
I am stuch at a problem that sould be very simply but it is not. At least for me
Here is the initial state:
Working folder: E:123DTS and E:DTSArchive
files: akarmi.zip, akarmi2.zip (there are one-one mdb files inside)
What I want to do with the package:
a) unzip the first file (there is an unzip.exe for this task)
b) rename the unzipped mdb (its name can be anything) to default.mdb
c) use the mdb with another package (that is not yet designed so I haven't added this one)
d) delete the default.mdb
e) move the first zip file into E:123DTSArchive
f) do a-e with all other zip files in the folder (so only once more in this case)
What I did:
1) I created a foreachloop container to do these with all the zip files, I correctly configured the enumerator to *.zip and created a user::zip_files variable
2) put an unzip ExecuteProcessTask. Its argument was the user::zip_files variable (this worked great)
3) I created another foreachloop container because I don't know how to rename the only existing mdb file in the folder (I wasn't able to use wildcards here)
3.1) this time the enumerator was *.mdb and the variable was user::mdb_files
3.2) I put a file system task into the container to rename that mdb file to default.mdb. I used variables for source and destination, too. Source variable (SourceRename) was an expression made of WorkingFolder variable (that was E:123DTS) +
user::mdb_files. This supposed to work but didn't When I put the exact name of the mdb instead of the user::mdb_files variable it worked without any problem.
4) another 2 file sytem tasks to move the original zip file into the E:DTSArchive folder and to delete the default.mdb file
5) end of the loop
I had problems with task 3) I even tried to make it run separately but without success
I would think that the solution is very simple. I would be grateful even if someone just send or upload me a package that renames every mdb file in a directory into default.mdb (it might sound stupid but if there is only 1 mdb that's okay and since this container is inside another the other default mdb files can be overwritten after using them in another package).
I've uploaded my packages with the files here: http://www.sendspace.com/file/mrd2jh
I was dealing with this one all day (with some interruptions) and I can't believe it can't be done.
Thanks in advance,
MartinIsti
Hello all-
I am currently trying to deploy a production package to our servers and am seeing some very strange behavior. I am attempting to use a File System Task inside a Foreach Loop Container that renames (i.e. moves) a file from a processing location, appends a date, and places it in a different directory. The source file is coming from a connection manager whose file name is generated dynamically. The destination file is coming from a variable that is set in the foreach as a preceding task. I experience two different behaviors for the File System task depending on where/how I run the package...
Inside the VS solution on the server & from the SSIS MSDB store on the server
The package behaves as intended. The file is correctly processed then renamed/moved to the correct location.
From the SSIS MSDB store on my local machine
The file is correctly processed, however strange behavior occurs in the renaming task. The informational message in the execution window says that it deleted the newly renamed file (the same message displayed in the VS solution results). Upon checking the file system, the file is neither in the source directory nor in the destination.
Does anyone have some insight as to why these might be behaving differently? My only guess is that it's some sort of file system permission (even though I have domain credentials for a local admin on the server), but I can't imagine why it would allow me to delete the file and not rename it... Though finding the source of the problem would be nice, my biggest question is whether or not the package will behave correctly if I setup a schedule for it.
I am trying to load a XML file into a string variable using a XML Task. The file is 67,936 KB. When I excecute the package in the dev environment I get the following error:
[XML Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "Exception of type 'System.OutOfMemoryException' was thrown.".
Has anybody run into this before? In the next step I pass the XMLData string to a stored procedure which loads it into a table with a XML data type column.
Hi!
I'm having a bit of a problem implementing a File System Task to Create a directory and would appreciate some help if possible.
I want to create a date directory so I can move files to once they are imported successfully. The date portion for the directory comes from the import file whose name is variable and in the format of PerfLog_<yyyymmdd>.aud. So, in essence, if I am processing a file named Perflog_20060913.aud, when I am done processing it I want to create a directory c:myprog20060913 and move my processed file there.
Can anyone help me? Please.
Hi,
In the integration services package i'm working on i connect to an excel database and have two data flows which deal with two work sheets in the excel spreadsheet. The data flows do some transformation and then write the data out to a SQL database (two differnet tables). This is all working great however what i want to do once both data flows are complete is to move the directory which contains the current file that is being looped through. At present there is a foreach loop going through a number of directories. I have tried to implement the File System Task object to move the directory but get the following error:
[File System Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.".
I've read a similar post where by the problem was due to not closing the excel connection before doing the File System Task. I cannot seem to find where i would be able to do this.
If anyone has any ideas i'm looking forward to hearing them.
Many thanks in advance,
Grant
does email task only work with sql server deployment? I have an email task in my ssis package and i want go for file system deployment.
thanks,
kushpaw
Hi there,
Eversince I've moved my import packages to our new dev server, I have been experiencing strange behaviour in my packages that does the archiving of the .csv files which we import.
These 'Archive' packages doesn't do anything fancy in my opinion and most of them work. To explain how the logic works:
The package consists of a For Each Loop that picks up the file, passes it to a string variable. Inside the For Each Loop container, I have 2 File system tasks. 1 Renames the file and then flows out to another that moves it (I am aware of the fact that I can do the rename and move in 1 go but prefered to keep it separate).
The FST that does the renaming, gets its source from the For Each Loop and after renaming the file, the file's new fully qualified path is stored in another variable. This variable then gets to be the source of the FST that moves it to the desired location...like i said...nothing fancy
I am getting errors where it tells me there is a mistake on my Rename FST's expresssion, which is nonsense since I run it on exactly the same files on my machine without problems. Another error is even more baffling...I get the Moving FST erroring out and complaining about not finding the renamed file?? how can this be?? it works also on my local machine, I wonder if it sometimes doesn't pass the variables correctly??
I recently got to install SQL service pack 2 on the box, which improved some things but these packages have been copied over from another server which had service pack 2 on. There are also quite a bit of updates that this server should be running and I was wondering whether these might solve the instability I get?
Any advice/opinions welcome
Michael
I want to rename files in a folder using filesystem task. My files are like these:
C:FOLDERDatabase20080225.bak
C:FOLDERDatabase120080225.bak etc
I want to remove this datepart and put in a C:FOLDERDatabase.bak file.
I am not quite sure about the string functions usage here...I think I have to map the destination variable to a string function output.
Any other ways to do this job ?
Thnaks for your help,
-Gish
I am trying to write a SSIS to distribute files to our client directories. In my source directory ( C:ClientPending ) i have a variable amount of file with variable file names and extensions. I need to sort these and place then in to different cient direcories. Each file name will contain the clients Referance Number ( ie Q123456.007 , A123456.exe, S123456.523 etc ). this clients directory would be C:ClientOutbound123456
Im presuming that i need a for loop container and a system file task, and a variable that i can parm in the ClientRef, i just dont know how to configure it.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
ta
Hi All,
I don't know if anyone faced this issue. We are having a strange problem. Our process was working well when it was implemented on 32 bit processor.IT ran perfectly for 6 months with out a problem. But when we moved the packages to a 64 bit machine, this issue along with some other issues started to show up.
The issue is we are missing files in the source folder.
Our process is designed such that a source process, brings in a file and updates a status for the file in a audit table. The ETL process picks up the file, then assigns the status as €˜running€™ when SRC process is complete and loads into Target DB, and updates ETL status to complete. But current problem is the ETL is losing files after it assigns the status as running. When we looked into the DB weather the data is loaded, we could not find any data related to these files.
we are have mapping level parameters for source path and target path.
We are using a For Each Loop task, and processing files(which are simple flat files) in the source path. The file name is stored in the mapping level parameter. Once the file is process we are moving them into a target path.
Our src and target file paths are on the same drive, just have src folder, inside src folder we have processed folder and failed folder. So files are picked from the source folder and moved into processed folder after processing. The files are not even moved to a failed folder.
There are lot other processing going on this box, and the trend observed is that when more processors are running at peak hour, the missing files€™ count is more.
Right now we are refetching those files, as a work around, but does any one has any suggestion why this is happening or any better implementation suggestions?
Thanks
We had this issue yesterday, for like an hour. Suddenly, our website started to get slow and get timeout errors. After executing sp_who2 and sp_whoisactive, we found a system process blocking many other processes. Of course, it was impossible for us to kill it.
Under "Status" it said TASK MANAGER, "Login" sa, from sp_who2.
Under "sql_text" it was NULL, "program_name" empty, "open_tran_count" changed like this: 2,3,4,3,4,2,1 until it finished, and "database_name" changed from our database to master at the end, from sp_whoisactive.
Our CPU usage and memory at that moment were almost the same as any other day.
We don't do backups or execute jobs at that particular time. We don't even use "sa" account.
What could have happened? In the event viewer we've found nothing, nor in SQL server logs.
Once it finished everything was back to normal, we want to prevent this from happening again.
Hi All,
I've been doing some further testing on SSIS and come across what I consider strange behaviour of the FileSystemTask.
This is set to delete a file, using the file name input from a variable.
If the file doesn't exists I would expect the task to fail, but instead it does not. It succeeds ! I would expect this to fail if the file it attempts to delete is not found.
Can anyone duplicate this strange behaviour ?
Regards,
P R W.
I'm having an issue where a folder that I'm accessing in an SSIS package gets locked up and cannot be deleted by my package later in the process.
1) I use a File System task to rename the folder. At this point, it appears to become locked and cannot be deleted.
2) Later I attempt to delete the folder using another File System task object. I get the error '[File System Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process."'.
My package accesses the folder via a drive mapping. This seems to be part of the problem, as it's possible to delete the folder directly but not via the drive mapping. Even once the package completes it's still not possible to delete the folder in Windows Explorer via the drive mapping.
Hi,
I want to move all files of one directory/folder into another usng SSIS, like in DOS Prompt we use the command,
Move d:ftpSource*.* d:ETLSource
I have tried by creating a file system task, but there is no option for Move Directory Contents. Move File is not accepting wild cards.
Regards,
Imran.
I have just loaded SQL Server 2005 SP1 and it is playing havoc with any SSIS packages that use the File System Task.
I am using the FST to copy a file to a directory after it has been loaded. This worked fine prior to SQ1 but now I am getting the following error if there are one or more files already in the target directory:
[File System Task] Error: An error occurred with the following error message: "The directory is not empty. ".
If I remove all files from the directory it works fine.
Has anyone come across this problem and got a workaround for this? Will it involve me writing a FSO script task???
Is this 'feature' going to be rectified in SP2?
This delete's the directory content as well as sub directory content! Is their a way i can just set it to delete the files in the said directory and not sub directories?
View 11 Replies View RelatedKB Article 906547 suggest that it's possible to have system variables in the Subject & Body of a Send Email Task. Such as this:
"Package>>> " + @[System::PackageName] +" was executed at>>> " + (DT_WSTR, 40) @[System::StartTime] + " by user>>> " + @[System::UserName] + " on Machine>>> " + @[System::MachineName]
Or this in an OnError event handler:
"Error in the task: " + @[System::SourceName] + "with the ID: " + @[System::SourceID] + " has failed at: " + (DT_WSTR, 20) @[System::ContainerStartTime] + "."
But when I do this I just get this exact text, no variables.
I'm obviously missing something basic but I can't find it. Can anyone offer a suggestion please?
I get the following error when trying to import (have tried flat files, Excel & Access). I've searched but have not found a resolution. Any help is appreciated.
Jeff
Validating (Error)
Messages
Error 0xc00470b6: Data Flow Task: The LocaleID 0 is not installed on this system.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc004706b: Data Flow Task: "component "Source - Test1" (1)" failed validation and returned validation status "VS_ISBROKEN".
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc004700c: Data Flow Task: One or more component failed validation.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)
Error 0xc0024107: Data Flow Task: There were errors during task validation.
(SQL Server Import and Export Wizard)