Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Data Management:
Database Administration

Startup command syntax

Figure 17–1 shows the conventions used in command syntax descriptions.

command  [ db-name ] [ parameter ] [ value ] . . .

Figure 17–1: Syntax conventions

For example, the following command allows 100 users to access the sports database and then set values for the database connection, performance, and network parameters:

proserve sports -n 100 -B 30000 -L 1000 -S sprtsv -H sys27

Table 17–1 describes each of the command components.

Table 17–1: Command components 

Component	Description
command	On UNIX, the command runs a script that executes an OpenEdge executable with appropriate parameters. In Windows, some commands run a batch file that executes an OpenEdge executable with appropriate parameters. Other commands run an OpenEdge executable directory.
db-name	Name of the database you want to connect to.
parameter, qualifier	Operating criteria for the command.
value	Numeric value or file specification for the parameter.

Note: On both UNIX and Windows, enter parameters exactly as shown in the syntax descriptions.