CONFIG

Displays the GUI for maintaining connections (Windows only)

Arguments

None.

Examples

CONFIG;

Notes

Opens the connection-management GUI: CONFIG.

Windows only: fails with an error on any other operating system. Also fails if the current connection is not $CDF (the encrypted Connections Definition File): connections can only be managed while connected to it.

Takes no arguments; the GUI itself lets you view, add, edit and remove database connections. A connection's "Login Scripts" tab manages the SQL statements run automatically whenever that connection connects; the top-level "Database Groups" tab manages the CDF's Database Group list used by every connection's Database Group field, and the "Environments" tab manages the CDF's Environment list the same way.

The "Connections" tab has two distinct views, switched from the "Connections" menu: "View active connections" (the default) and "View inactive connections". An inactive connection is shown greyed out and cannot be created, edited, saved, duplicated or soft deleted from that view. It can only be reactivated or hard deleted (permanently), each with a confirmation prompt. Trying to save a new connection under an ID that already belongs to an inactive connection offers to reactivate that connection instead of creating a duplicate ID, warning that doing so discards whatever was just entered in the form.

Last modified in release 5.1.4.