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for ODBC Guide


Starting and Stopping a Broker Process from the Command Line

You may start and stop a broker process from the command line. To do this, follow these steps at the DOS shell prompt:

  1. Set the environment variable ODBSRV to the name of the executable (including the path) of the DataServer for ODBC. Be sure to set this variable on the host machine.
  2. To start the DataServer broker process, enter the following command at the system prompt on your NT host machine. Select a value for service–name from the list of available services in your \windows-install-dir\system32\drivers\etc\services file:
  3. brokername -H host-name -S service-name -N TCP 
    

    For example, the following command uses the default broker executable. The service name demosv is a service listed in that file:

    _probrkr  -H paris -S demosv -N TCP 
    

  4. To stop the broker process, enter this command:
  5. proshut -Gw -H host-name -S service-name -N TCP 
    

After you start the NT broker process, you are ready to start a Progress client on a PC running Windows or NT or on a UNIX machine. See the "Starting the NT or Windows Client Process" section or the "Starting the UNIX Client Process" section for instructions.


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