Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Progress Dynamics Administration

Starting a Progress Dynamics session

Before you start a Progress Dynamics session, you must start the Repository database, ICFDB. You must connect to ICFDB to access the Dynamics tools in the AppBuilder. You also must start the ICFDB database in multi-user mode so that you can make client, AppServer, and/or Web Server connections as needed.

When you installed Progress Dynamics, the Progress Dynamics Configuration Utility (DCU) created shortcuts to batch files that start (in multi-user mode) and stop the ICFDB Repository.

To start a Progress Dynamics session:

To start the Repository, choose Start OpenEdge Progress Dynamics Start Dynamics DB Servers.

You might see the batch file run briefly in a command window. The command window will close once the batch file completes running.

Start your application databases.

You can use a database shortcut and create a new startup icon that starts your application databases for you. See OpenEdge Development: Progress Dynamics Getting Started for more information on creating database startup shortcuts.

To start a Progress Dynamics development session, choose Start OpenEdge Progress Dynamics Dynamics Development.

By default, this starts the client/server development (ICFdev) session. After you start the framework, the first screen you see is the Application Login dialog box, as shown:



Note: The processing date on the login screen comes from the startup parameters in the configuration file. For more information on the configuration file, see the "Generating the configuration file" section.

The login program provides for application security and language control. For more information about setting up and using basic security features, see Chapter 3, " Setting Up Basic Security Options."

Type a Login Name (the default is admin). The AppBuilder, along with the PRO*Tools and Object Palette, appear.

For more information about setting up your own login name, see the "Defining session services" section.

Verify that your Repository and application databases are connected. Choose Tools Database Connections from the AppBuilder main menu.

The following figure shows that the ICFDB Repository and the DynSports sample application database are connected to the session:



Note: The application database is not connected unless you modified the default ICFDev session type to include it as a service. (See the "Configuring a Progress Dynamics session" section.) However, if the application database is running, you can add it at this point by selecting the Connect button and connecting in multi-user mode.
To stop the Dynamics Repository database at the end of a session, choose Start OpenEdge Progress Dynamics Stop Dynamics DB Servers.