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Patches would come with specific instructions. For the "upgrades" part of this, read the Installation and Upgrade Guide pdf that ships with the product.

The command is "dsjob" and is fully documented in the Command Line Interface chapter of the Server Job Developer's Guide pdf.

Sure, you can send the current loop counter as a job parameter to an activity inside the loop. Use the name of your Start Loop stage followed by ".$Counter" as the value. Note this is directly accessable from the "External Parameter Helper" / "Insert Parameter Value" pi...

That syntax looks fine and *should* work just fine. Can others execute this command? What O/S and patch level is your PC?

Sure there is.

That's done from the Client, not the server side and you use the Import / Export DataStage Components utility in the Manager for that. From the client command line, you also have "dsexport.exe", "dscmdexport.exe" and "dscmdinput.exe" all of which have been discussed her...

So... you know nothing of DataStage and yet have been placed at a client site to Administer their installation? Yikes. :? Your questions are quite all encompassing, each one a large discussion in their own right. First suggestion would be to get your hands on the pdf documentation that installs with...

And not marked your "job type" as Server.

Search the forums for discussions of the DS_AUDIT repository table.

Democratic-Republican Party?
Disaster Recovery Plan?
Distribution Resource Planning?
Dividend Reinvestment Plan?

Please don't use acronyms and assume everyone will know what you mean.

Sure, -stop is one of the dsjob options available. Read the Command Line Interface chapter of either Designer's Guide pdf.

Those are DOS errors, sounds like your Tivoli environment doesn't include the MKS ToolKit directories - check your PATH, etc.

One of those days, I guess.

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Generally, one would check if the value is greater than zero.

Then you need to have a chat with this third party company, see if they can provide you with a working file before you try to come up with ways to work around their... crap.