diff --git a/Framework/Core/src/runDataProcessing.cxx b/Framework/Core/src/runDataProcessing.cxx
index 3e911a1c7bf34..694b5a5d36182 100644
--- a/Framework/Core/src/runDataProcessing.cxx
+++ b/Framework/Core/src/runDataProcessing.cxx
@@ -1389,6 +1389,7 @@ int runStateMachine(DataProcessorSpecs const& workflow,
             "--aod-writer-resfile",
             "--aod-writer-resmode",
             "--driver-client-backend",
+            "--fairmq-ipc-prefix",
             "--readers",
             "--resources-monitoring",
             "--time-limit",