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# Before you begin

Before using the Bulk load into Amazon Redshift entry in PDI, you must perform the following steps to download the Redshift driver and copy into the Pentaho distribution:

1. Download the latest JDBC 4.0 driver from the [Download the Amazon Redshift JDBC Driver](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/mgmt/configure-jdbc-connection.html#download-jdbc-driver) site.
2. Copy the downloaded JAR file into the `server/pentaho-server/tomcat/lib` directory to update the Pentaho Server.
3. Copy the downloaded JAR file into the `design-tools/data-integration/lib` directory to update PDI.
4. Verify that your cluster is configured to support the `COPY` command.

   See [Credentials and Access Permissions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/loading-data-access-permissions.html) for more details.

You can now use the Bulk load into Amazon Redshift entry in your PDI jobs.


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