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Is there any role that allows a user to inspect a job design (including the transformations within it) but does not allow them to run said job?

Inspection can use DataStage Designer, Operations Console or Information Governance Catalog.

The Operations Viewer Role might be the one. I would need to check about the execution part when the Work Load Management utility is enabled, but if disabled the users on this role won't be able to execute jobs

Operations Viewer only allows one to view an image of the job design. There is no ability to view any stage properties.

This type of role has been requested long ago and I'm afraid it has fallen on deaf ears year after year. Is there any kind of user group that has a voice? Personally I've never even received acknowledgement that any of my requests for enhancement were ever reviewed.

Here is one tech note about a read-only role that was published in 2012 with comment, "Accepted as a requirement for a future release."

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg1JR44071

Here is a similar note from 2012 confirming there is no such role.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg21404529

maybe an alternative is to grant said user the IGC roles to the view the job designs through IGC instead?

Maybe DSODB console.

You could get someone to create a report of the job, externalize the HTML page with picture, edit the HTML so that it references a local path rather than the hardcoded host path for the picture, and then supply them that HTML. Ugly, but it might work.

do you have multiple environments? You could let them execute and modify etc in development sandbox only, perhaps? Or set up a dummy environment with a copy of the jobs, but no working database connections?