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Installing Quality Center explorer does not fix this issue. The procedure I used to test this was to install QCExplorer followed by the DataStage client and then try to run QCExplorer. During startup, QCE installs components of the QC addon which registers a later version of the EXGrid control which...

I tried monitoring the QC plugin installation using a process monitoring tool but too many results were returned to really learn anything useful. I imagine that the issue has to do with QC installing an alternate version of some system object that DataStage Designer relies on. Quality Center provide...

This seems to be a problem whether or not you install the full client suite or just Designer/Director.

2011-09-16 - Having DataStage open when QC opens doesn't prevent the issue. I'll test and see if having an ODBC connector dialog box open prevents the change from happening.

I did a clean reinstall of the DataStage client and the ODBC connector dialog pages work correctly now. It may be notable that I tried reinstalling without uninstalling first, and that didn't fix the problem. The only thing I did during the hour that Designer quit working last time was to open the t...

This problem just showed up again on my new laptop. Same hardware, OS, DataStage client.

I looked around the forum and searched Google for awhile but I haven't found an answer so far. This issue apparently affects the display of a lot of properties dialog boxes. The place it affects the most is the ODBC connector properties box. The Stage page is missing a General tab which isn't all th...