Why is meant by direct and indirect loading options in sessions?

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Why is meant by direct and indirect loading options in sessions? ..

Answer / raj

we use file type direct when we are loading single file into
target. we use Indirect when we want to load multiple files
through single session.

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Why is meant by direct and indirect loading options in sessions? ..

Answer / prashant

When we are using the Direct option at the session
level,then we are loading only single file.
But when we are using Indirect option, then we can load
multiple files also.For this we have give a list file
(.list) path in the session which will contain the names of
the files need to be loaded.

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Why is meant by direct and indirect loading options in sessions? ..

Answer / pradeep

we use file type direct when we are loading single file into
target. we use Indirect when we want to load multiple files
through single session in the mapping

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Why is meant by direct and indirect loading options in sessions? ..

Answer / srikanth chowdary

when you are using the direct method option in session side that time your loading only single file into target and when you are using indirect method that time you can create LIST.txt file then you can pass multiple files into target in a single session but need to same structure in files

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