/log

Provide logon information to a database or network.

/log=Path: {Database | NodeName}|{UserName}|{Password}

Arguments

  • Path—default path leading to a DBMS or network connector, or user-defined path from the assignment file for the application. Include a dollar symbol ($) with the path name, for example, $MSS or $TCP.
  • Database—database name
  • HostID—host name of the machine where the database or Uniface Router is running

  • UserName and Password—user name and password of the database or host.

Description

Provide logon information to a database or network. This avoids having to use the DBMS Log On or Network Log On form for that path. You can use multiple /log switches when you need to log on to several paths.

The /log switch specifies the database, user name, and password to be passed to the DBMS that manages the data concerned. Or, if you are entering logon information for a network, this switch specifies the node name, the user name, and the password to be passed to the network.

If the path definition in the assignment file includes logon information, the /log switch is ignored.

The Path is mandatory and must refer either to a default path leading to a DBMS or network connector or to a user-defined path from the assignment file for the application. Include a dollar symbol ($) with the path name.

Note:  For security purposes, you can obfuscate or encrypt all or part of the connection string required to logon to the database or network using the Pathscrambler utility. For more information, see pathscrambler.exe and Encrypting Paths and Other Sensitive Data Using PathScrambler.

Unix

Unix recognizes the vertical bar (|) on the command line as a ‘pipe’ symbol. To use the /log switch, you can add double quotation marks ("), as follows: 

$IDF /log=$TCP:"VAX1|zoe|orlando"

Using /log

The following example logs on to the Sybase database ‘prod’, as user ‘sa’ with password ‘kennet’: 

/log=$syb:prod|sa|kennet

The following example starts a Uniface application using the /log switch to log on to ORACLE automatically: 

/log=$ora:|scott|tiger