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Knowing anything about the section leaders won't help you much here. The score is too large to broadcast to the section leaders. That's the symptom that you need to address.

Is this a new installation or an upgrade from an earlier release? If the latter, you can get the (free) IBM Concierge Service to assist. Otherwise, as noted, everything you need is in the Installation and Upgrade manual for IBM Information Server, or from the Information Center on IBM website.

Possibly, but please clarify whether you are using WebSphere Transformation Extender ("TX") or DataStage. They are separate products, but TX was part of DataStage for a while.

They ARE all there. But the source code is not necessarily exposed in the repository. You will be able to choose them from the appropriate list when using the expression editor. Note that very few of them are available for parallel jobs - but they are available for Routine activities and server jobs.

None of those. DataStage installer runs its own Java-based GUI.

There is no command line access to the "disconnect session" functionality that can be used by non-Administrators.

These representations ARE decimal.

Start the DataStage deadlock daemon. It has a secondary task of cleaning up defunct processes.

That is a very old reference!

The way some things work has changed over the years.

Sure. Limit the number of null string arguments.

1) You'll find out soon enough if they're not working.
2) 0.6

Make sure the agent is running. This could be the Node agent (part of Information Server) or it may be a database agent - you will have to determine this, because we can't.

The abort was so bad it disabled the possibility of Aborted/Restartable status and only left Aborted.

Without knowing the exact cause, it's not really possible to suggest anything else.

You could have used the Search facility.

The easiest way is to choose Print from the Project menu in Director. Within the Print dialog you will find a "print to file" checkbox. The rest is straightforward.

Not possible in the way you describe. But you can interpolate a Column Generator stage in the flow to generate a constant (a Cycle with only one Value).