File IO: Overview

The File IO (FIO) driver module allows IDX to read data from a text file that is in the general .csv format of rows and columns or any other proprietary format using regular expressions. Often, programs that cannot otherwise quickly interface with another system are able to generate these types of output files which can be read at a specified rate by an IDX gateway. The IDX gateway translates the row-column data or any other format into slot-value data and makes this data available to the conventional tag-data clients and servers for other purposes.