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Have you tried a recompile? I, too, haven't seen an aborted state with greyed out reset.

The "stop" request is just that; the job needs to be checking for this flag to be set. Since it is executing within the before-job portion it won't get this signal. You will need to kill the process running the .bat file from outside of DataStage.

What is the status of the job - if the reset button is greyed out that means that the job probably has not run.

I would try reinstalling your client software first if you are the only one affected at your workstation.

Hmm... is this a new installation, or an old one where something has changed?

Do all clients (Director & Designer & Administrator) show the same errors?

This has been posted before. See this thread for example.

reset the job, is there an entry titled "from previous run...", if yes, post the contents.

Since DB2 has no truncate, it will do a DELETE rather than the (more complex) load method to delete entries.

Are you starting it directly or through a sequence? What is the job status after the attempt? Does a reset give extra log information?

The performance information is not stored with the job, it is retrieved at display time from the logs. The annotations are stored in the repository as distinct entities in the DS_JOBOBJECTS.

What data types are these columns?

Is it just this job that is affected? Does a recompile change behaviour?

run your jobs from the UNIX command line using "dsjob -run" if the failures are the same then it is unlikely to be due to the client. But as mentioned before, please post the complete error message(S).

No, you cannot turn NLS on/off at a project level in DataStage.