Job Details

As part of HR DQ project, we have developed the below Talend jobs which gets the data from SuccessFactor tables and ingest data into the respective STG/ODS tables. We are following the DataOcean standard jobs. 

Talend flow explanation

Main Flow

• • Setup meta_run_id and filename of the output file

• • Call the Rest API Job (J001*) which will invoke the SuccessFactor Rest API to extract the data (full) and load and save the file to GCS
  • Call the standard job to upload the files from GCS to ODS
  • If everything is OK, update the log. 

We are following the DataOcean standard Jobs except the J001* (SuccessFactor Rest API) job which is explained below

The above job invokes the SuccessFactor Rest API (by passing the username / password) to extract the data. Below are the main SuccessFactor parameters which are getting used while extraction, these parameters are common to all the SuccessFactor jobs.

l_VAR_SAP_SF_ENV : This parameter will contain DEV / PROD as the value, this is to mask the confidential information. If its DEV then the column will get populated with "" in the BQ tables, if PROD then it will have the source value in the target BQ. 
l_VAR_SAP_SF_LIMIT : This parameter is used to manage the number of records per iteration

l_VAR_SAP_SF_URL : This parameter is used to hold the SuccessFactore REST API URL

l_VAR_SAP_SF_PASSWORD : This parameter is used to store the password required to invoke the API
l_VAR_SAP_SF_USERNAME : This parameter is used to store the username required to invoke the API

Possibilities for the Talend job failure

As this is a full extract job and we are not doing any transformation (its 1:1 mapping), so the possibilities of failure could be one of the below 

• STG / ODS table not present
• Credentials issue (i.e. incorrect Username / Password to access the SuccessFactor RestAPI, in that case you can reach out to tania.pereira@solvay.com, she can help with the credentials)
• RestAPI error : This could be if the API is not accessible
• Talend RemoteServer Issue

Once the issue is fixed, we can rerun the job from start and it will create the file again and load the data and there will be no loss of data. 

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Data Validation/Troubleshoot queries

Data Validation:

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Logging:

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Troubleshoot steps:

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Failed Records

As part of HR DQ project, we have developed the below Talend jobs about running some data quality validation queries and writing the results in Google Drive files.

Source

This job uses data quality queries stored in prj-data-dq-selfservice-dev.DM.Dataplex_quality table.