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All,

A strange problem started quite recently in our shop. We extensively use ODBC Connector stage to do our unloads. The "properties" page - which has the SQL and all the important properties - suddenly disappeared in my system, whereas others were able to open it up. This was 10 days ago. Then slowly, one by one, every one started experiencing this problem and now except for one, everybody has this issue.

There was nothing that changed in our Workstations as well as on the Server. This problem is irrespective of the environment (Prod, Test, Development). I re-installed it and it briefly (for one day) worked, but again disappeared.

Any thoughts into resolving this issue are greatly appreciated!! If any additional information is needed, I can provide that.

Thanks.

If you click in the "blank" area of the Connector stage, does the row of the grid on which you clicked become visible? Can you then click elsewhere to have other rows become visible? And are you connecting through some kind of tunnelling protocol, such as Citrix MetaFrame?

Thank you for your response Ray.

The problem is that the entire properties page is not present when we open the stage. We do not use any Citrix based environment to connect. Our connections are direct from our workstation to the server.

However, this issue was diagnosed to be a problem with a "dll". We recently upgraded our Quality Center (Defect tracking tool) tool which created a certain dll file to be created, which unfortunately is also used by DataStage (it uses a much older version). IBM provided us a patch for it and now, all is well.

Can you reference the patch from IBM, I am now experiencing the issue.

Thanks

Can you reference the patch from IBM, I am now experiencing the issue.

Thanks

I am sorry, reference the patch?

I think they sent us this patch in an e-mail. Let me find out the PMR of this and see if they posted it. Before anything, did you have QualityCenter upgraded in your system? Search for "exgrid.dll" in your workstation and see the versions. DS uses 2.0.0.8 and HP uses 3.0.0.9 or something...

Sorry for the lack of clarity. I am on a conference call and trying to do this at the same time and I am not doing it very well.

Yes, please provide a reference for the patch so I can reference it when I talk to IBM support, such as a module name and/or PMR#.... :D

No problem. That is what I thought. I contacted the person who opened up the PMR for me (unfortunately, I cannot do that at this point of time) and he is unavailable...he is not responding and not at his desk either. So, until then please search for that dll that I mentioned in my previous post and see if you find multiple versions.

I do not have PMR #, but I have the following info for the patch

PATCH FOR APAR : JR34751
PATCH NAME : patch_JR34751_client_windows_8010-8101
COMPONENT : Common Connector Framework
LAYER : Client
OPERATING SYSTEM : Windows
SUITE VERSION* : "8.0.1.0 - 8.1.0.1"
COMPONENT VERSION* : "1.0.0.0"
UNINSTALL** : "Supported"

Hope this helps...

thanks