Progress
Results Administration
and Development Guide
Starting the Converter
When you run the Converter, you must connect to a database. If you do not specify the database connection information when you start the Converter, it will prompt you to do so when you start it.
You can access the Converter in two ways:
- Run the following command in the Procedure Editor:
- Create a Windows icon, then enter the following command in the icon command line:
The dbspec argument represents a database connection specification with the following syntax:
The Physical Database Name (-db) parameter allows you to specify the physical name of a database to connect. All 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, etc.). The parameters argument represents any other startup parameter required to configure the current Progress session to meet your needs.
For more information about the startup parameters referenced in this section, see the Progress Startup Command and Parameter Reference.
Follow these steps to start the Results Converter and connect to a database:
- Start the Converter. If you do not specify the database name on the command line at startup, the Connect Database dialog box appears:
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- Specify the database name in the Physical Name field.
- Choose Options. The Connect Database dialog box expands to provide more options:
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- Choose OK. The Converter appears and displays the Conversion Type dialog box:
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The Conversion Type dialog box provides three choices:
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