Command format

-a control-statement-filename ~<pathname> ((up to 255 characters))

For details about the control statements, see Sections 7.3 through 7.17.

For a HiRDB single server configuration: Specify the file containing control statements for the database structure modification utility (pdmod) in an absolute path name.

For a HiRDB parallel server configuration: Specify the file containing control statements for the database structure modification utility (pdmod) in an absolute path name. The control statement file should be created for the server machine where the dictionary server is located.

You can specify multiple control statements, in which case pdmod processes each control statement to completion. If a control statement results in an error, pdmod skips that control statement and processes the next control statement. This means that once a control statement has terminated normally, it is not rolled back, even if an error occurs in a subsequent control statement. If an error occurs in pdmod, eliminate the cause of the error indicated in the message that is output to the standard error output and to the message log, and then re-execute only the control statement that resulted in the error.
To insert a comment in a control statement, precede the comment with a forward slash and an asterisk (/*) and follow the comment with an asterisk and a forward slash (*/).
If you selected utf-8 or utf-8_ivs as the character encoding in the pdsetup command, you can use a control statements file that contains a BOM. However, only ASCII codes can be used for comments in the control statement file. Do not use non-ASCII code characters, because use of non-ASCII code characters might cause pdmod to malfunction.

-W execution-monitoring-interval ~<unsigned integer> ((0 to 3600)): Specifies (in minutes) the monitoring interval when the execution time of the database structure modification utility is to be monitored. For guidelines on the value to specify and details about the resulting operation, see the description of the pd_cmd_exec_time operand in the system common definition in the manual HiRDB Version 9 System Definition.; If 0 is specified in this option, the utility's execution time is not monitored.; If this option is omitted, the value of the pd_cmd_exec_time operand in the system common definition takes effect.

7.2 Command format