Problem

Attempting to run Compliance produces an error of the form “Failed ‘Failed to read assets from DataStage repository” repository’ and “The ‘The following certificate could not be verifiedverified’. ” This exception may also be encountered when invoking other MettleCI functions that involve the retrieval of assets from DataStage.

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Reason

The DataStage Services Tier self-signed certificate that usually resides in the trusted store of the MettleCI Workbench host is missing or has expired. The example screenshot shows the second situation and the error text between ...ReadAssetRepositoryException: and Command timed out ... comes straight from the DataStage CLI command that Workbench is attempting to run in the background during its operations. Since this is effectively an API call by Workbench, users cannot respond to that prompt from within the Workbench UI.

Solution

Users will need to do one of the following:

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