Startup script options

Pan and Kitchen recognize the command line options in the scripts that start the PDI client: Spoon.bat on Windows or Spoon.sh on Linux. To use the following options with Pan or Kitchen, modify your startup script to include these options.

Note: The startup script default directory is design-tools/data-integration. See Try Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics for more information,

The following table describes the command line options:

Option	Description
FILTER_GTK_WARNINGS	Option to suppress GTK warnings from the output of the spoon.sh and kitchen.sh scripts. You can:- Set to true to suppress warnings. Leave this option empty to view warnings.
SKIP_WEBKITGTK_CHECK	Option to suppress warnings that the libwebkitgtk file is not installed when launching the PDI client. You can:- Set to true to suppress warnings. Leave this option empty to view warnings.
KETTLE_HOME	Option identifying the user's home directory. The directory contains configuration files, which vary depending on the user who is logged on. You can use the KETTLE_HOME variable to change the location of the files normally in the <user home>.kettle directory or to specify the home directory for all users on a machine.
KETTLE_LOG_SIZE_LIMIT	Option to limit the log size of transformations and jobs that do not have the log size limit property.
KETTLE_JNDI_ROOT	Option used to change the Simple JNDI path, which is the directory that contains the jdbc.properties file.
KETTLE_DIR	The directory where the PDI client is installed.
KETTLE_REPOSITORY	The repository that Kettle connects to when it starts.
LIBPATH	Value that is passed as the -Djava.library.path Java parameter.
PENTAHO_DI_JAVA_OPTIONS	Option to pass additional Java arguments when running Kettle. For example, you can set an option to increase the PDI client memory limit. See Try Pentaho Data Integration and Analytics.