Error: An action must be specified with -a switch when starting up stat oracle agent (4251009)

The following error occur when we try to startup the STAT Oracle Agent:

"Error: An action must be specified with -a switch"

We execute the following command:
$STAT_HOME/bin
./statctl.sh -e enter_env_code -a start

Environment related issue

1. Take a back-up copy of the statctl.sh so you can revert back to if needed
2. Open up the statctl.sh
3. Locate this line:

a) ACTION=`echo $OPTARG | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]"`;;

Change it to:

a) ACTION=$OPTARG;;

3. Save the file

4. Now try to startup the stat oa

This issue happened to occur on Solaris 10.