OpenEdge Data Management: DataServer for Microsoft SQL Server

Connecting the DataServer
6–6
Starting and stopping a broker process from the
command line
This section addresses how you can start and stop a broker process from the command line.
To start and stop a broker process from the command line:
1. Set the environment variable MSSSRV to the name of the executable (including the path) of
the DataServer for MS SQL Server. 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 Windows host machine. Select a value for service–name from the list of available
services in your \OpenEdge-install-dir\system32\drivers\etc\services file:
brokername -H host-name -S service-name
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
3. To stop the broker process, enter this command:
proshut -Gw -H host-name -S service-name
After you start the Windows broker process, you are ready to start an OpenEdge client on a PC
running in Windows or on a UNIX machine. See the “Starting the Windows client process”
section on page 6–6 or the “Starting the UNIX client process” section on page 6–7 for
instructions.
Starting the Windows client process
Start the OpenEdge client process on your Windows machine by running the prowin32.exe
executable. The Windows executable includes support for the DataServer.
You can create a program icon for the OpenEdge client process. On the command line for the
program icon, enter the following information:
1. The executable
2. The schema holder name
3. The connection parameters required by the remote DataServer configuration