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Released CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.2 SR-2 (1.2.102.0). This release includes following major changes:

• Implemented Data Flow Destination support a variable used to signal a waiting thread, data processing has finished.
• Various fixes in the SSH back-end component.
• Implemented SFTP task “Get remote files list” action to provide extended remote file information.
• Implemented option in SFTP task to specify if remote path is a wildcard or not.
• Fixed SFTP task to provide cleaner errors description.

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Released CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.2 SR-1 (1.2.101.0). This release includes following major changes:

•   Implemented new action in the SFTP task for retrieving list of remote files.
•   Fixed Zip Task. It always created Zip64 archives, even when not needed.
•   Fixed Database Partitions Task:
  • Create Partition action failed with “Specified cast is not valid.” error message for certain partitioned tables.
  • Insert Partition action failed with “Cannot insert explicit value for identity column in table ‘…’ when IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF.” when partitioned table contained identity columns.

The SQL 2008 version is also updated.

Don’t waste time implementing custom data flow component events under SQL Server 2005. There is a bug, which prevents it from working. I just got back response from the SSIS PM the issue is acknowledged, but it will not be fixed in the foreseeable future for SQL Server 2005. To follow the status of this issue, track this report.

We have great news. We have just released CozyRoc SSIS+ 1.2 library and our newer pricing structure. Greetings to Stacy, George, Bobby and Andy.

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We have implemented SSIS script task sample demonstrating FTP over SSL operations. It depends on FtpWebRequest for FTPS support and Script Task Plus for UI implementation. You may check it here. 

We are announcing with great pleasure the release of CozyRoc 1.2 Beta 2. It includes one very cool new component called Data Flow Task Plus. As you may have guessed from the name, it is an extension of the standard Microsoft Data Flow Task. When we started planning for the next version, we determined there are places where SSIS framework can be improved. One of those places was the data flow task, with the inability to reuse the logic in it in other packages. What we determined was needed, sounded daunting at first and believe me, our accomplishment so far is nothing short of amazing. What this new component is now giving you is the ability to componentize and reuse your data flow logic in other packages and lets you keep track of the changes separate from specific package. In addition to that we have implemented a customizable user interface for your data flow, so when you decide to distribute your shiny-dandy data flows to other users, they will not be required to check what is going inside, but just point-and-click the parameters to setup the task for the new job. Now you will probably realize how important were the Data Flow Source and Data Flow Destination components to allow complete abstraction of your data flows from specific package and achieve top performance.

This release includes also the following major changes:

• SSH Connection Manager component.
  • Fixed connection manager. Sometimes it failed with ‘Value cannot be null’, when working against freeftpd server.
• Script Task Plus component.
  • Implemented to initialize script from task-scoped SSIS variables. The new approach is better suited for package configuration. ScriptInit property should not be used and is depreciated.

This new version is great news and great holiday gift for powerful SSIS users and we will be glad to hear your opinion about it. Gives us a shout and let us know what you like and what else do you think is needed. The release is available for download here.

This topic is a work in progress. It will stay this way until Microsoft SSIS product team decides to document their native interfaces for third-parties to use. If you want to develop custom SSIS task in C++, you have to load yourself with patience and be ready to spend some time in the debugger and with Reflector. The undocumented native interfaces for implementing SSIS Control Flow Task can be found by opening the COM type library information in the DTS.dll library. The following interfaces represent roughly the base class Task from which all custom SSIS task must inherit:

• IDTSTaskInit90
• IDTSTask90
• IDTSObjectVersionUpdate90

There is one more interface IDTSComponentPersist90, which has to be implemented for serializing your task. After you are done implementing these four interfaces, you have to make your task visible to the SSIS framework. This is done by including additional information in the registry for your COM object. The additional registry keys under the specific task CLSID are:

• DefaultIcon - Must point to an icon resource located in your DLL. Should have the format <your library>.dll,0 where 0 is my guess the index of the icon resource.
• Programmable - I’m not sure if this is mandatory, but I saw other stock SSIS tasks using it.
• Implemented Categories - Should contain {CD0DB111-958E-440D-9111-7D70D1490063} subkey. Categorizes your COM object as SSIS task?
• DTSInfo - Various additional SSIS task metadata.
  • Description - task description.
  • ResourceFile - string resources containing additional task descriptions. Should have the format <your library>,10,20 where 10, 20 are string resource ids.
  • TaskContact - information describing where the SSIS originated from, copyright info, etc.
  • TaskType - Describes task compatibility. For SQL 2005, it should say DTS90.
  • UITypeName - Task user interface type reference.

After you compile and open an SSIS package, you should be able to browse and find your custom SSIS Control Flow Task listed.

p.s.

We haven’t spent time yet developing custom SSIS Data Flow Components, but you may check the type library in the DTSPipeline.dll library.