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    How to Create Stop All and Start All Databases Shortcuts on the Desktop of the FIMS Database Server
    • 01 Nov 2022
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    How to Create Stop All and Start All Databases Shortcuts on the Desktop of the FIMS Database Server

    • Updated on 01 Nov 2022
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    You may have moved servers and now the Stop All and Start All icons are missing. This article describes how you can add them back.

    Answer:

    1. Go to npo\found\FIMS
    2. Find the STOPALL.CMD and the STARTALL.CMD files
    3. Right click on each file and select Send to Desktop Create Shortcut
    4. Go back to npo\found\FIMS and edit the STOPALL.CMD file in Notepad
    5. Edit as follows below. Note that your Progress and FIMS installation may be on another drive other than C. The highlighted portion is the part you are changing. You will be deleting anything there already and adding the highlighted portion:
    @echo off
    rem        file: stopall.cmd
    rem description: Stops all progress Databases that are using ProControl
    rem              This only works on NT/2K/XP
    rem
    rem       notes: This works whether using sql or not using sql
    rem              if the the dlc\bin directory isn't \npo\dlc\bin then
    rem              copy this file somewhere else and make changes.
    rem      Author: R. Schnitzler
    rem     Created: June 2002
    rem
    rem     History:
    rem
    rem
    @echo on
    c:\npo\dlc\bin\dbman -stop -all

    6. After editing, save the file
    7. Now edit the STARTALL.CMD file in Notepad. Note that your Progress and FIMS installation may be on another drive other than C. The highlighted portion is the part you are changing. You will be deleting anything there already and adding the highlighted portion:
    @echo off
    rem        file: startall.cmd
    rem description: Starts all progress Databases that are using ProControl
    rem              This only works on NT/2K/XP
    rem
    rem       notes: This works whether using sql or not using sql
    rem              if the the dlc\bin directory isn't \npo\dlc\bin then
    rem              copy this file somewhere else and make changes.
    rem      Author: R. Schnitzler
    rem     Created: June 2002
    rem
    rem     History:
    rem
    rem
    @echo on
    c:\npo\dlc\bin\dbman -start -all
     
    8.  After editing, save the file

    Your desktop shortcuts should now work correctly.
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