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Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:51 pm**

Hi,

My mind is blocked. I remember that I've seen the Exporting/Importing environment variables command icon before but I can't find them now.

Here is the details. I'm following

Exporting environment variables
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocente ... ogbox.html

to step 4, "In the Environment Variables dialog, click Export to File. "

but I just can't find that icon. This is what I see:

Please help.

Thanks

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:22 pm**

I think these features are introduced in 8.5 version .Make sure that you are looking in 8.5 datastage version .

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:36 pm**

I checked Admin. in v8.7 and just above the Set to Default button, there are buttons labelled Export to File... and Import from File... Those are missing from your screen shot.

The doc link you sent is for version 8.5. Are you on v8.5?

Are you using the dsadm ID?

You should also be able to find those Environment Variables already in the DSParams file in each DataStage project directory.

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:11 pm**

Thanks for your replies, everyone.

Yes, I'm using DS8.5.

As to the ID, I'm not using dsadm per se, but the ID I used is the DS/QS administrator. This should be good enough, should it?

Thanks

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:12 pm**

Thanks for your replies, everyone.

Yes, I'm using DS8.5.

As to the ID, I'm not using dsadm per se, but the ID I used is the DS/QS administrator. This should be good enough, should it?

Thanks

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:14 pm**

nagarjuna wrote:I think these features are introduced in 8.5 version .Make sure that you are looking in 8.5 datastage version .

Hmm, for datastage version below 8.5, 7.5.2 specifically, how to do the environment variables exporting/importing?

Posted: **Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:50 pm**

There is file called DSParams ..You need manually copy the contents ...Make sure you are doing it properly ..You can search the forum for it's location & how to copy , what to copy ? It should be available in Vincent blog too

Posted: **Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:10 am**

Not sure about 7.5.2 but have you tried the $DSHOME/bin/dsadmin command to list your env variables?

It can also be used on the server side to import new variables.

Posted: **Fri Jan 13, 2012 8:12 am**

I checked in 8.5.0.0 with an internal user registry using some various admin IDs and the buttons are not displayed there at all.

The buttons are not mentioned in the 8.5 Administrator Client Guide PDF either, whereas they are in the 8.7 Administrator Client Guide.

Could it be you saw them in 8.5.0.1? 8.5 Fix Pack 1 did introduce some new features, like viewing the job log from withing Designer (Ctrl+L).