Database Window (DBW) is an X client program that requires an X server to be running on the local machine. DBW supports standard X Windows display forwarding. To ensure that the graphical user interface displays properly, you can use the standard -display option to specify the host name or IP address of the local machine.
To start a utility from Database Window:
- If not already done, set up the database environment by typing:
tdatcmd
at the Linux command line.
- Open DBW from the Linux command line by typing:
xdbw –display displayspec &
where displayspec is the name or IP address of the local machine, followed by a colon and the server number, typically 0 or 0.0. For example:
xdbw -display myworkstation.mycompany.com:0.0 &
or
xdbw -display 192.0.2.24:0.0 &
The DBW main window opens.
- Click the Supvr button to open the Supervisor (supv) window.
- Under Enter a command, type:
start utilityname [ options ]
where utilityname is the name of the utility, and options can include any of the available command-line options and arguments of that utility. utilityname is not case-sensitive.
The following message appears:
Started ' utilityname ' in window x
where x is the number of one of the four available application windows DBW provides.
Each utility started runs in one of the four application windows. The title bar of the application window and the corresponding button in the DBW main window change to reflect the name of the running utility. When the utility stops running, the application window and main window button revert to the default text title (that is, Appl1, Appl2, and so forth).
For more information on DBW and CNS commands, and on options that are available with the START command, see Database Window in Teradata Vantage™ - Database Utilities , B035-1102 .