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Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:47 am**

Protect or Unprotect a project in DS 8.1 - Is there a way to script this task so that we can avoid the usage of the Administrator client to do this?

What I am trying to do is write a small script that could be run by dsadm or root when a project needs to be protected or unprotected.
The project name and protect/unprotect switch will be passed to the script as parameters.

Is this do-able? If yes, whats the Unix command to protect/un-protect a project?

Appreciate your help.

Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:06 am**

See the last option...

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C:\Programme\IBM\InformationServer\Server\DSEngine\bin>dsadmin /?
Invalid/unknown primary command switch.

Command Syntax:
        dsadmin [-file <file> <domain> <server> | -domain <domain> -user <user> -
password <password> -server <DataStage server>]
                        <primary command> [<arguments>]

Valid primary command options are:
        -createproject
        -deleteproject
        -oshvisible
        -enablercp
        -enablejobadmin
        -envadd
        -envdelete
        -envset
        -advancedruntime
        -basedirectory
        -deploymentdirectory
        -customdeployment
        -listprojects
        -listproperties
        -listenv
        -enablegeneratexml
        -protectproject

Status code = -9999

Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:09 am**

So... that makes me wonder how to do the "un" part.

Posted: **Thu Aug 19, 2010 9:11 am**

I thought the same.. mayhaps they neglected to add the help option for unprotect but I don't feel like protected some poor project that I later can't unprotect anymore

Posted: **Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:49 am**

4.5 year old post, but was incomplete...

The -protectproject option has a TRUE or FALSE argument required.

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$DSHOME/bin/dsadmin -protectproject

Invalid arguments: dsadmin -protectproject TRUE | FALSE <project name>