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Datastage osh (Orchestrate Shell) command not working

Troubleshooting


Problem

When running commands using the osh (Orchestrate Shell) it fails to run

Symptom

When running a simple osh command it returns the below example error:

> osh
usage: osh <options> "<step specification>"
or: osh <options> -f file [-stdin file]
<options> include: [-echo] [-explain] [-dump] [-schema] [-check]
[-collation_sequence <collation file>]
[-collation_strength <collation strength>]
.
etc.....

[{"Product":{"code":"SSVSEF","label":"IBM InfoSphere DataStage"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU048","label":"IBM Software"},"Component":"Not Applicable","Platform":[{"code":"PF002","label":"AIX"},{"code":"PF010","label":"HP-UX"},{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"},{"code":"PF027","label":"Solaris"},{"code":"PF033","label":"Windows"}],"Version":"9.1.2.0;9.1;8.7;8.5;8.1;8.0","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB76","label":"Data Platform"}}]

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Modified date:
25 April 2025

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