When using the Oozie Proxy job submission API for submitting the Oozie Hive, Sqoop and Pig actions. To pass any configuration to the action is required to be in below format. For Hive action: oozie.hive.options.size : The number of options you'll be passing to Pig oozie.hive.options.n : An argument to pass to Hive, the 'n' should be an integer starting with 0 to indicate the option number <property> <name>oozie.hive.options.1</name> <value>-Doozie.launcher.mapreduce.job.queuename=hive</value> </property> <property> <name>oozie.hive.options.0</name> <value>-Dmapreduce.job.queuename=hive</value> </property> <property> <name>oozie.hive.options.size</name> <value>2</value> </property> For Pig Action: oozie.pig.options.size : The number of options you'll be passing to Pig oozie.pig.options.n : An argument to pass to Pig, the 'n' should be an integer starting with 0 to indicate the option number <property> <name>oozie.pig.options.1</name> <value>-Doozie.launcher.mapreduce.job.queuename=pig</value> </property> <property> <name>oozie.pig.options.0</name> <value>-Dmapreduce.job.queuename=pig</value> </property> <property> <name>oozie.pig.options.size</name> <value>2</value> </property> For Sqoop Action: oozie.sqoop.options.size : The number of options you'll be passing to Sqoop Hadoop job oozie.sqoop.options.n : An argument to pass to Sqoop hadoop job conf, the 'n' should be an integer starting with zero(0) to indicate the option number <property> <name>oozie.sqoop.options.1</name> <value>-Doozie.launcher.mapreduce.job.queuename=sqoop</value> </property> <property> <name>oozie.sqoop.options.0</name> <value>-Dmapreduce.job.queuename=sqoop</value> </property> <property> <name>oozie.sqoop.options.size</name> <value>2</value> </property> ... View more