https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hive-rest-api-cannot-query-tables/m-p/135204#M97863 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/140/nsabharwal.html" nodeid="140">@Neeraj Sabharwal</A> <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/393/aervits.html" nodeid="393">@Artem Ervits</A> Hi , Have tried the same curl -s -d execute="select+*+from+table1;" -d statusdir="status" 'http://&lt;IP add&gt;:50111/templeton/v1/hive?user.name=hive' {"id":"job_1455079614548_0015"} Its showing as ID of job but the status directory is not getting creating in hdfs.</P><P>hdfs dfs -ls status ls: `status': No such file or directory</P> Wed, 10 Feb 2016 17:52:21 GMT klksrinivas 2016-02-10T17:52:21Z