Package Not Finding Xml Configuration File

Hi,

I'm having difficulty configuring a package to look for an xml configuration file that contains values for source/destination connection strings.

The goal is to be able to have a package and its configuration file on one file system and to be able to copy/move the file dtsx and dtsx.config between build/staging/production servers while only having to set the xml value for the source/destination configurations.


In the package, I've created an xml configuration file called zzz.config. I took the absolute path out of the location of the xml file so that I have
xml location = zzz.config
instead of
xml location = e:ssiszzz.config
I'm assuming that when it gets to the point of validating the location of that file, it starts by looking in the current directory where the package is found.

All is well as long as I execute the package through the execute package utility by double clicking on the package file.

The problem lies when configuring a job in the sql server agent, it doesn't seem to pick up the xml configuration values because its pointing to the old server and not the current server stored in the xml file. I'm assuming its because the current directory is not the package directory at this point.


How can I get around this? Do I have to move the xml config file (zzz.config) to another directory where the agent will look for?

I know I could configure this as an environment variable but this contradicts the point of having movable packages without any extra tweaks.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Robin