Examples of Configuration Files

You can use the predefined configuration files as templates to create your own.

For example, the following configuration file starts the database mydb.db on the database server named Elora, with a 32MB cache and a 20-minute checkpoint interval. It allows anyone to start or stop databases and load data, limits user connections to 10, has a catalog page size of 4096 bytes, has a default client connection timeout of 72 hours, uses TCP/IP as a network protocol, and has a specified port number of 1870:

-n Elora -c 32m -gc 20
-gd all -gl all -gm 10 -gp 4096 -ti 4400 -x tcpip(port=1870) path\mydb.db

You can execute all these command line options using:

start_iq @mydb.cfg

Note: When you stop the server with the DBSTOP command, you must specify the same parameters as when you started the server; if you use a configuration file to start the server ensures that you can find these parameters when you need them to stop the server.