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Thanks Ray!

At this time, the WAS installation is being used only by DataStage. However, the admin team is considering putting other non-DS applications in future (we have separate licensing for WAS). This is the reason behind my question, "Why do we have to stop everything including the deployment manager...

I am looking for the stop and start procedures. IBM Documentation has something like below Stop DataStage Engine - No confusion here Stop the ASB Agent - No confusion here either Stop the WebSphere Application Server (WAS) In WAS Console, Servers > Clusters > WebSphere Application Server clusters , ...

This is how I would like the environment variables to work on a DataStage grid shared by three teams. The behavior below is what I have observed. It's possible that the behavior could be different based on some configuration settings (that I am not aware of). Requirement Do not want to define team s...

Only way I could do make this work is with -local on dsjob and changing directory to the project directory.

What's behind the restriction of have to be in project folder to accomplish this?
Are there are disadvantages in executing from the project directory?

A few changes since the last post (addition of control-m being the main). Here is what our grid looks like (still being installed). --------------------------------------------------- |________LOAD BALANCER__________| --------------------------------------------------- | WAS - 1 _________|_______WAS...

Thanks Paul and Franklin for quick response! Our environment is still being built and I have a few questions. Paul/Franklin, When you say project area, are you referring to purely data areas or the projected related folders that DataStage creates or both? Franklin, When you say appid, is it a local ...

We need to kickoff jobs from a non-DataStage server. DataStage is installed on a RHE Linux Grid. I think using dsadm is not a good idea. Especially if multiple teams are sharing the grid. Please let me know what you are using in a similar situation (grid or otherwise). Also, is using dsadm a common ...

Sean, Have you implemented the DS plug-in solution? If so, please could you post the following details? What is your control-m environment (OS, etc.)? Where is the DS plug-in installed? Any specific issues you have run into? Do you also use Control-M Archive? If so, are the DS logs available in Cont...

Thanks Ray and Paul for very informative and prompt responses!

Waiting for some more responses from other forum members with issues they have faced.

In an environment with a DataStage 9.1 grid on RHE Linux and shared by multiple teams within the entire IT, where do you run the dsjob as well as non-DS scripts? Please consider the following - Only one active head node Run thousands of DS jobs a day (if the same DS job is run 20 times a day, i am c...