Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Reporting:
Query/Results Administration and Development

Using the startup commands

To start Results, use one of the following startup commands:

Operating system	Syntax
Windows1	prowin dbspec [ dbspec ] ... -p results.p [ parameters ]
Modify the Client icon properties to use this command.

If you do not specify an OpenEdge database on the command line, Results prompts you to connect to at least one database at startup time. The dbname parameter represents the name of an OpenEdge database. All of the startup commands allow you to establish both single-user and multi-user connections to OpenEdge databases. OpenEdge connects to the first OpenEdge database specified after the prowin command as a single-user OpenEdge database and connects to the first OpenEdge database specified after the mprowin command and the _prowin executable as a multi-user OpenEdge database.

The Startup Procedure (-p) parameter specifies the main Progress 4GL procedure for the session. The startup procedure for Results is results.p located in the Results product directory. The Results product directory must be located in the PROPATH. The parameters argument represents any other startup parameter required to configure the current Progress session to meet your needs.

You can specify multiple OpenEdge RDBMS connections with each of the startup commands. The dbspec parameter represents an OpenEdge database connection specification with the following syntax:

-db dbname [ -1 ] [ parameters ]

The Physical Database Name (-db) parameter allows you to specify the physical name of an OpenEdge database to connect. All OpenEdge databases specified after the first database in a startup command connect as multi-user databases, regardless of the startup command. The Single-user Mode (-1) parameter designates a single-user database connection. You can also specify parameters that describe how Progress connects to a database (for example, identification of the host and server name of a multi-user database on a network).

Note: For Results, the recommended setting for the Maximum Memory (-mmax) parameter is 4000.

For more information about the startup parameters referenced in this section, see the OpenEdge Deployment: Startup Command and Parameter Reference .