SFTP is a secure file transfer protocol that enables you to transfer files over SSH, also known as Secure Shell protocol.
Objects extracted
Metadata Command Center extracts metadata from the following objects:
•File Systems
•Flat Fields
•Flat Files
•Folders from an SFTP File System source
You can extract metadata from the following files:
•XML File
•XSD File
•Attribute
•Element
•AVRO
•CSV
•JSON
•Parquet files based on the partition structure
You can extract workbooks, worksheets, and columns from Microsoft Excel files.
Supported file types
The following table lists the structures associated with the file types that you can extract metadata from:
File Type
Partition structure
AVRO
Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge
CSV
Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge
JSON
Single partition
Parquet
Single partition, multiple partitions, schema merge
You can extract metadata from TSV and TXT file types.
You can extract metadata from XML and XSD file formats as XML file objects. Metadata Command Center extracts only elements and attributes from XML and XSD files. If the size of the XML file exceeds 100 KB, Metadata Command Center extracts metadata from the initial 100 KB of the file. However, for XSD file types, Metadata Command Center extracts complete metadata.
You can extract metadata from the following Microsoft Excel file types: