Checking Results While the Monitor Runs

On UNIX systems, you can watch monitor output as queries are running.

For example, you could start the monitor using the following command:

iq utilities main into monitor_tab 
start monitor “-cache -interval 2 -file_suffix iqmon”

This command sends output to an ASCII file with the name dbname.conn#-[main|temp]-iqmon. So, for the database iqdemo, results would be sent to iqdemo.2-main-iqmon.

To watch results, issue the following command at the system prompt:

$ tail -f iqdemo.2-main-iqmon