https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/UDF-reflect-is-not-allowed-beeline/m-p/155072#M117511 <P>not able to use refect function using beeline, same query just works fine with hivecli.</P><P>both in hivecli &amp; beeline when i search for show functions i could see reflect .. I donot see any denials in ranger</P><P> SELECT reflect("java.net.URLDecoder","decode",search_query) FROM jlp_endeca_searches limit 5; Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException UDF reflect is not allowed (state=42000,code=40000)</P> Mon, 04 Apr 2016 22:40:41 GMT chrsvarma 2016-04-04T22:40:41Z