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It is possible to set up user IDs that can be used for authentication (in this case via dsrpcd) without being able to log in interactively. This would prevent users from being able to telnet to the UNIX machine, for example. There are still ways users could execute UNIX commands from DataStage, but ...

Some of them are undocumented, the folks here reverse engineering menus and the like to discover the underlying commands. For example DS.CHECKER is (was) an option in the DS.TOOLS menu.

Thank you for posting the resolution. This will help anyone who encounters the same problem in future.

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That's a difficult question, one that I can't answer off the top of my head. Alas I don't have access to the Pattern Action Language manual at the moment, so I can only suggest that you peruse that, or wait for someone else to respond.

... because they work at other sites.

Disabling delayed writing is probably better from a DataStage perspective; it reduces the chance of lost writes should the power go off.

Just one PC or many?

Look in the second event in the job log, which shows all environment variables' settings. Look in the first event in the job log ("job starting") which shows all job parameter settings with which the job was invoked. Figure out whether they're being passed properly. Check the job design, to see whet...

Do you mean Windows disk caching or Hashed File disk caching?

Draw yourself a grid with OS rights on one axis and DS roles on another. Fill in the cells as per your understanding. Post that here for feedback.

1) No.
2) Administrator is defined as member of Administrators group. So, yes.
3) Yes.
4) No. It's only the mappings set in the Administrator, governed wholly by operating system group membership.

Usage Analysis in Manager. All these tools require that your metadata management has been exemplary, that you have not invalidated the linkage between the table definitions in the Repository and those in the jobs. You can determine (version 7.5 and later) whether these are intact by opening a Column...

There's always the FieldStore() function to replace the value in the Nth delimited field.

You can create nested loops that obtain a list of the stage names in a job and a list of the links connected to a stage (DSGetJobInfo and DSGetStageInfo respectively).

39202 can also mean that your server licence has expired. Can you stop DataStage? bin/uv -admin -stop What messages do you receive? Make sure there are no network connections still held by DataStage processes netstat -a | grep ds Restart DataStage bin/uv -admin -start What message occur now?