New to Pentaho, enjoying the spoon gui, but it seems not be possible to import parameters with command line arguments like
-param:abc=def
I only got this to work with Kitchen, but this does not have the gui.
Perhaps because spoon might open multiple jobs and transformations, while kitchen opens just one job, from the command line.
Am I missing something?
Yes, but not as you imagine it.
Just open the Job/Transformation in Spoon and click on the "Run" button. You'll be presented with the "Run Options" dialog which lists all parameters defined in the job/transformation. Edit the Value column and that's it.
But spoon won't be able to run multiple instances of the same job in parallel, it will only run one. To launch multiple copies in parallel you'll need a parent job that calls the same sub-job multiple times with different parameter values, and is set to launch all those copies in parallel.