Progress
Startup Command and Parameter
Reference


Cursor Size (-cs)

Operating 
System
and
Syntax 
UNIX
Windows 
-cs n 
Use
With 
Maximum
Value 
Minimum
Value 
Single-user
Default 
Multi-user
Default 
CC
256
1
6
6

n

The cursor size, which is the number of index levels.

Use Cursor Size (-cs) to change the maximum number of index levels. You seldom need to use this parameter.

Progress indexes have a tree structure. Even large indexes typically are no deeper than three or four levels. Index cursors, which act as place holders during file access, have size 6 by default; that is, they support up to five levels of indirect access. Therefore, few users ever require the Cursor Size (-cs) parameter. However, in rare cases involving large index keys, increase -cs in response to the following error message:

Index index-number has at least n levels. Increase -cs parameter. 

Increasing -cs by 2 should be sufficient.


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