Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Special parameters: bg
Startup parameters change the behavior of the Service Manager server. You can always set a startup parameter from the server's operating system command prompt.
Parameter
bg
Description
This parameter causes the Service Manager Server to run RAD processes in background mode (that is, no user interactions or messages are available).
This parameter affects three aspects in the RTE: the DBI (Database Interface) layer, the APPs code, and message sending.
- In the DBI layer, once this parameter is set, the following db operations will not trigger any error messages to the client any more:
- delete:
If DBI is trying to delete a record that was already deleted by others, the message "The record being deleted was already deleted" is not sent.
If DBI is trying to delete a record that was already modified by others, the message "The record being deleted has been modified since read" is not sent.
dbUpdate:
If DBI is trying to update a record that was already deleted by others, the message "The record being updated has been deleted" is not sent.
If DBI is trying to update a record that was modified by others, the message "The record being updated has been modified since read" is not sent.
- delete:
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When "bg" is set, the following APPs functions will fail with an error as described below:
- fdisp: "FDISP panels cannot be executed in the background."
- rio: "RIO panels cannot be executed in the background."
- wopen: "WOPEN panels cannot be executed in the background."
- wclose: "WCLOSE panels cannot be executed in the background."
- wselect: "WSELECT panels cannot be executed in the background."
- Once "bg" is set, all messages generated by RTE code and APPs code (via APPs function "scmsg") are not sent to the client; instead, they are sent to the log files defined by the parameter "log" (by default, it is sm.log).
Valid if set from
Server's operating system command prompt
Initialization file (sm.ini)
Requires restart of the Service Manager server?
No
Default value
None
Possible values
None
Example usage
Command line: sm -httpPort:13080 -bg
Initialization file: bg
Related topics
System parameters
Enter a parameter in the sm.ini file
Background and scheduled process parameters
