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Well done ArndW,
I did what you said and it worked when I compiled with same user.

You have solved it!

However, in saying that, what if I want this particular user to be able to run ANY job from commandline. (this is a scheduler tool). There are a bunch of Datastage developers all with their individual usernames so this is going to be required.

Then make sure that they are all in the operating system group that is associated with objects in the project directory, and set their umask value to 002.

Hi Ray,

Thanks for that, can you tell me how to check these settings as I have no idea what you are telling me to do. I would like to check these first then send a request to the server support people to get them to update the umask settings, but first I want to understand what I am to be asking them.

Logged in as that used, you type 'groups' - the first one listed is their primary group. Or you can check /etc/passwd and /etc/groups directly.

cool thanks for that.

when I run these commands I come accross some problems:

chgrp -R dstage /opt/IBM/Ascential/DataStage/Projects/MyProject
chgrp: changing group of `each/and/every/file': Operation not permitted

chmod -R g+w /opt/IBM/Ascential/DataStage/Projects/MyProject
chmod: changing permissions of `each/and/every/file': Operation not permitted

do I need root to perform these commands?

Odd.. is that literally the error - 'each/and/every/file'? If so, that's not something I've seen before, what flavor of UNIX are you running?

No, that part was not literal, the same error appeared 100's of times (once for each and every file).

My appologies for that missunderstanding.

Ah, so just the 'operation not permitted' part then. Still, what O/S?

Never mind, googling for 'chgrp operation not permitted' enlightens us - you must be a member of the group to have permissions to change the group. Or be root, of course.

Some administrators restrict access to chmod, chgrp, chown, etc., just as a matter of course.

Thanks for your help guys,

I had the administrator run those commands from root, and all seems to work great now.

chulett wrote:Configuring DataStage for Multiple Users.

Do these instructions still apply to version 8.0.1, and later ?

Seeing as how there are still a 'Universe' repository and file permissions in play in the 8.x world, I would certainly think so. Can't say if that is still the complete answer, however.

Probably would have been better to have asked this over in the FAQ posting itself rather than here.

Probably would have been better to have asked this over in the FAQ posting itself rather than here.

I tried. It would not let me post there.