![]() ![]() Now I will admit that I had been working on this for about 5 hours straight and had become so obsessed with making this work with the Import Export Wizard, I started to not pay attention to detail. Easy enough to fix, I moved my original “copies” to a completely different folder.įor the second issue, the source type within the Mapping File. ![]() In my case it was finding the source/destination Mapping File in the original Mapping File and completely ignoring my modified copy. The key word there is ALL the files in the directory, so if you just copy your original files to the same folder (with the famous “ – copy” so courteously appended by Windows Explorer), it will search through both your original AND the modified copy of the respective Mapping File. So it searches through all the files in the following directories, depending on your architecture (I’m using SQL Server 2016 hence the 130 in the path):Ĭ:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\DTS\MappingFilesĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\130\DTS\MappingFiles When you select a source and destination the wizard has to know how to map the data types from source to destination so you don’t end up with gobbledygook in your destination. But if you notice the Mapping file for my destination…įor the first issue, a little background on how the Import Export Wizard works. Second, the Source Type within the Mapping File.Īccording to the Import Export Wizard, my source provider is IBMDA400 and it can’t find any mapping file. First, the order in which the Import Export Wizard searches through the Mapping Files. This isn’t so hard, no big deal, they’ll all populate correctly now.WHAT?! Still for all columns! Now this has become a matter of solving it using this method, I will NOT resort to brushing up on my BIML.Īfter many attempts I finally figured out what the issue was. I made sure the Import Export Wizard was closed then started it again. I made my modifications to include the column types and their respective mappings courtesy of the Data Type Mapping article and saved my changes. I took the advice of the articles and made copies of my Mapping Files before I modified them. After some frantic googling, I found a couple of very good articles on the Mapping Files for the Import Export Wizard. WTH?! This doesn’t happen when I’m working in Visual Studio with my SSIS projects. When I clicked on the Edit mappings button in the wizard to make sure all the datatypes had been mapped successfully, I got “” for every single column. ![]() Well, we all know that’s not what happened, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. On a roll now, should only be another 30 seconds and I can put this project to bed. I selected my destination, SQL Server Native Client 11.0, of course! It’s a straight forward install once you have the installation package. You can find out more about them here, unfortunately you have to have a maintenance contract and an account with IBM before you can download them. Now before you can select this data source you must install the IBM DB2 drivers. I fired up the Import Export Wizard and selected my source, IBM DB2 for i IBMDA400 OLE DB Provider. Since this would essentially be a “one-time” thing, I chose to use the Import Export Wizard, but I would save the package just in case they wanted this process repeated. The C-Suite didn’t want to give the consultants access to our AS400, so this was the work around that was put forth and accepted (and no, no one asked me before I was “voluntold” for the task). I was tasked with copying data from the AS400 to a SQL Server database for some consultants to use. We currently run DB2 on an IBM iSeries AS400 for our ERP system. This post talks about the issue I ran into with SSIS Mapping Files. ![]() Shoot, all I would have to do is a few clicks and be done with it, right? Boy was I wrong. So I decided to take the “easy way out” and use the Import Export Wizard in SQL Server Management Studio. I didn’t have to do any fancy transformations on the data, I just had to copy it. Now most of my BIML friends would say, I could BIML that for you in 2 hours and if my BIML weren’t so rusty, I probably could have too. Unfortunately there were over 4,000 tables that I needed to pull data from, no way in HELL was I going to manually create 4,000+ packages. Normally I would whip up my fancy SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) project and get it hammered out pretty quickly. Recently I had to copy data from our AS400 to a SQL Server database. ![]()
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