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What do you mean by "executed" in an HTML context? HTML = "hypertext markup language" - it does not promise anything executable.

There are four different scenarios around how you can set up engine credentials - shared/non-shared, default/no default. All are well described in the Administration manual. Authentication, which is separate, can be done in at least three ways; internal, operating system or LDAP. So far, therefore, ...

So what's the issue?

Don't change SHMALL at all unless you have more than 8GB of memory.

You don't have more than 8GB of memory.

The DML statements are present in case you ever decide to enable the "create table" property possibly with the "drop table" sub-property. There's nothing there to be concerned about.

When you first convert to LDAP authentication you run the AppServerAdmin script to assign the initial administrative user which, since it's the only one extant, tends to be the WAS administrator. Best practice, however, is not to use that user as the Information Server administrator but, instead, to...

This tells me that &HOLD& was created for some reason in your Template (from which projects are created). It may be universally deleted from DataStage with impunity.

My guess would be the Sort stage chapter in the Server Job Developer's Guide.

The &HOLD& directory is not used by DataStage. It will not exist in most DataStage projects, unless someone has been experimenting with the SETPTR command and actually executed a SETPTR command with a mode argument of 3. &HOLD& is a legacy from the UniVerse RBDMS on which DataStage s...

Did you give the name of the column followed by a space then one of asc, ASC, desc or DESC ?

Actually I worked at one site in the middle east where they deliberately horizontally flipped all the stage icon bitmaps, the more easily to design right-to-left and thereby to align to the direction of Arabic labels.

Create environment variable PWD in your system or project and set its value to ".".

Do you have default Engine credentials defined? That is, a login that is used for users without specific credentials?

... and that's why it's called the "silly season".

Alternately someone has edited your stage icon bitmap files quite severely.

Difficult? I don't think so, but I've grown used to typing them in over the last 15 years.