Here's a couple of user functions for compressing and decompressing files in parallel, you can control the degree of parallelism, it will compress/decompress all files in one directory and write into another. The number of parallel processes can be configured on invocation. I posted some time back about how ODI User Functions are really useful, this is a great example. What I have here is a couple of user functions you can call in an ODI Procedure or an ODI KM for example and the functions have 3 arguments; the input directory of files to compress/decompress, the output directory where zipped files will be stored or contents extracted to and the number of processes in the pool to process all of the files.
Below you can see the FileZipper user function used in an ODI procedure to demonstrate how to compress all of the files in a directory d:\inputlogs into a target directory d:\outputzips it uses 4 parallel processes to perform the compression. Obviously the performance is determined on the processors you have available in order to gain maximum benefit.
You can download the user functions below, the target output directory must exist;
- FileZipper( inputDirectory, outputZipDirectory, numberOfProcesses) user function is here
- FileUnzipper( zipDirectory, outputDirectory, numberOfProcesses) user function is here
You can look into the user functions and edit, change and enhance. Let me know what you think. The implementation is java code that uses Java thread pools introduced in Java 5. A great example of leveraging java core capabilities to provide real benefit in your integration processes.