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

Starting a sever for an OpenEdge database

Before you can establish a multi-user connection to an OpenEdge database, you must start a server for that database. Use one of the following commands to start an OpenEdge server for an OpenEdge database:

Operating system	Syntax
Character	proserve dbname [ parameters ]
Windows1	wproserve [ dbname ] -N DDE [ parameters ]
Modify the Server Shutdown icon properties to use this command. This command starts an interactive server shell for an OpenEdge database. The server is not a high-performance server and is provided to facilitate testing of multi-user OpenEdge applications in Windows.

As with the startup commands, these server startup commands can also take additional parameters that configure the OpenEdge database server to meet your needs.

Once you start a server process for an OpenEdge database, you cannot establish a single-user connection to that database until you shut down the server. Use one of the following commands to shut down an OpenEdge database server.

Operating system	Syntax
Character mode	proshut dbname [ -by | -bn | -H host-name | -S server-name | -F ] ...
Windows1	wproshut [ dbname ] [ parameters ]
Modify the OpenEdge Server Shutdown icon properties to use this command. This command displays a dialog box that allows you to specify how you want to shut down a specified OpenEdge database.

For more information about startup commands, parameters, and OpenEdge RDBMS connections, see OpenEdge Getting Started: Installation and Configuration . For more information about OpenEdge RDBMS servers, see the OpenEdge Data Management: Database Administration .