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Acxiom Data Ingestion
Use the Acxiom Data Ingestion source to ingest Acxiom data into Real-Time Customer Data Platform and enrich first-party profiles. Then, you can use your Acxiom-enriched first-party profiles to improve audiences and activate across marketing channels.
Read the document below for information on how you can set up your Acxiom Data Ingestion source account.
Prerequisites prerequisites
In order to connect your Acxiom Data Ingestion account to Experience Platform, you must provide values for the following authentication credentials:
IP address allow list
A list of IP addresses must be added to an allow list prior to working with source connectors. Failing to add your region-specific IP addresses to your allow list may lead to errors or non-performance when using sources. See the IP address allow list page for more information.
Configure permissions on Experience Platform
You must have both View Sources and Manage Sources permissions enabled for your account in order to connect your Acxiom Data Ingestion account to Experience Platform. Contact your product administrator to obtain the necessary permissions. For more information, read the access control UI guide.
Naming constraints for files and directories
The restrictions listed below must be taken into consideration when naming your cloud storage file or directory:
- Directory and file component names cannot exceed 255 characters.
- Directory and file names cannot end with a forward slash (
/). If provided, it will be automatically removed. - The following reserved URL characters must be properly escaped:
! ' ( ) ; @ & = + $ , % # [ ] - The following characters are not allowed:
" \ / : | < > * ?. - Illegal URL path characters are not allowed. Code points like
\uE000, while valid in NTFS filenames, are not valid Unicode characters. In addition, some ASCII or Unicode characters, like control characters (0x00 to 0x1F, \u0081, etc.), are also not allowed. For rules governing Unicode strings in HTTP/1.1 see RFC 2616, Section 2.2: Basic Rules and RFC 3987. - The following file names are not allowed: LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, PRN, AUX, NUL, CON, CLOCK$, dot character (.), and two dot characters (…).
Next steps
By reading this document, you have completed the prerequisite setup needed in order to bring data from your Acxiom account to Experience Platform. You can now proceed to the guide on connecting Acxiom Data Ingestion to Experience Platform using the user interface.