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We have released Beta 5 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . It includes small fixes to the licensing code and PGP Task. The major difference is the inclusion of Script Task Plus and Data Flow Task Plus in SSIS+ 1.3 for SQL Server 2008. We will spare you the gory details, but say it was quite challenging technical feat to accomplish. We are happy to have these powerful components as part of the soon-to-be official SSIS+ 1.3 release.

We have created a script, which simplifies the process of checking for existence of remote FTP files. You can use either SSH or FTPS connections. If the remote file exists, the result of task execution is success. Otherwise it is set to failure.

We have released Beta 4 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . It includes a long awaited support for FTP over SSL (FTPS). The new FTPS Connection Manager supports both Explicit and Implicit FTPS connections. We have also updated the SFTP Task to include support for the new FTPS connections.

ps. Thanks for the feedback Doug.

We have released Beta 3 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . The release includes new component for reading and processing of EDI format files. The release includes also a fix where the PGP task failed to decrypt packages, which were both encrypted and signed.

We are getting close to our official release, so we would like to ask for your assistance and report the issues you encounter. We appreciate it.

We had customers asking for a way to uncompress files packed with the standard Unix “compress” utility. We have created SSIS script, which gives that capability. Enjoy.

You have probably already seen this scenario. You want to load data, do transformations over it and then enumerate the result data flow in a standard for each loop container. The recommended Microsoft solution is to direct your data flow to in-memory ADO recordset destination component and then setup the for each loop container to iterate the result ADO recordset. As you probably understand this solution has one major shortcoming. It is extremely memory intensive and has unpredictable performance. Wouldn’t be great if somehow the data being processed in a data flow can be send directly for processing in foreach loop enumeration, without intermediate steps requiring additional memory consumption?

Well, thanks to the enhancements our SSIS+ 1.3 library brings, it is now possible to do it. We have created an SSIS script task, which creates wrapper object over standard DataReader Destination component. The object is then stored in package variable and can be used in your enumeration container control flows. The script is available for download here. Enjoy.

Tip: Each iteration item is of type IDataRecord.

Released CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.2 SR-3 (1.2.103.0). The installation of this SR is recommended because it resolves major integration issues in BIDS. This release includes following major changes:

• Fixed: Copy-And-Paste of Script Task Plus caused task failures.
• Fixed: Data Flow Destination component failed without defined SignalEnd property.
• Fixed: Crash when browsing SignalEnd property of Data Flow Destination component in standard ‘Properties’ grid.
• Implemented Data Flow Source component support a synchronization variable, controlling when to start processing data.
• Fixed: Crash when opening Analysis Services project in BIDS.

We have released Beta 2 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . The release includes new components for communication with Jabber clients and management of Stream objects. The release includes also fix for the PGP task not reporting enough information when having an error.

Just posted Beta 1 of CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.3 . The release includes new components for public-key cryptography encryption using OpenPGP standard, components for connection with Amazon S3 service and components for bulk-loading of data in the major databases on the market: Oracle, DB2, Informix. Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

It has been quiet for awhile. We’ve been busy working on the next release of SSIS+. And we have already completed work on some really needed components for your SSIS toolset. It is not too late to share your ideas about what would like to see in the next version.

Have a great coming summer.

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