Execute Process Task
Using the Execute Process task, you can run a business application or a batch file to perform specific business functions that can’t be developed easily in SSIS; the good thing about this is that the output from running the business application or batch file can then be included in the SSIS package workflow. You could unzip files, call custom programs to break a huge file into smaller files that can be easily handled for transformation operations, run a custom report generation application from within SSIS, and then use a Send Mail task to distribute those reports. To keep it simple, we will use this task to unzip the files you have downloaded from the FTP server in the preceding Hands-On exercise.
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