Use of -name with dbman

Posted by goo on 23-Jan-2017 03:31

Progress 11.3

I have been using dbman -name <db> -stop and -start for taking down and bringing up the databases, and it works swell. Today I was looking at the help for dbman, and I could not find the -name parameter. Is it an undocumented attribute? I found that -database and -agent, is it so that my script should read:

dbman -database ac -stop instead? or is it ok to use -name?

I find -name much better, since Progress is using that for most of the other commands.  

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Posted by Tom Cattigan on 23-Jan-2017 07:26

Hi,

I don't think -name has ever been valid for the databases - either -database or -db (or -all).  Curious to know why it has never failed for you before.

Regards,
Tom

Posted by goo on 23-Jan-2017 10:17

It does not failed, it was just me not finding it in the document.... strange... I will ask support.

Posted by ymaisonn on 26-Jan-2017 07:02

Although not documented it is indeed possible to indicate the database name using the -name parameter or no parameter at all. For instance:

call dbman -name sports2k -start

call dbman sports2k -start

I've amended the following article with that piece of info:

knowledgebase.progress.com/.../P12852

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