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Depending on how your job is designed it is possible that no parameters are mandatory (they all have suitable defaults), that all parameters are mandatory, or somewhere in between.

Presumably there's no table called lnk in the DB2 schema.

You can get this from the internet, for example here

Check permissions using operating system commands/utilities. For example, using Windows Explorer permissions can be seen by viewing the Properties of the object, under the Security tab. Doubtless there's a DOS command also. You can also use UNIX commands such as ls -l because you have MKS Toolkit in...

Connectors and Data Connection objects are available in server jobs in 8.1. I suspect that Parameter Sets are also available.

Yes, maybe 7.5.2 or 7.5.3.

That's the answer. With "www" in the URL it works. Without "www" I get the behaviour I described. No idea why - some weirdness in the PHP that the site runs, I suspect.

Why do you need to query the Repository? This information is available directly using the Director client.

It is a non-trivial exercise to query the Repository, because every job's status information is stored in a separate table.

No, but Job2 and Job3 can concurrently read the Data Set created by Job1. There's no limit until you run out of memory - each loads the Data Set into virtual memory when it's on a reference input link to a Lookup stage.

If they did, they'd probably post something about it.

What exact version of 7.x? Do you have Information Server Manager? Then istool is probably the best choice for a command line interface.

Crikey, not nearly enough information. What are the data sources? Are these on the same server? Will the services, repository and engine tiers be all on the same machine? What other applications will be running on the machine(s)? How big is a row? From how many sources do these 400M rows come? How c...

Use the National Language Support capabilities of DataStage, with an appropriate map that can handle accented European characters.

Sequencers can not abort.

Sequences can.

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Now please learn to post questions in the correct forum.