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You end all active DBM server connections to the specified database instance, apart from the ones you use to execute this DBM command.

Caution Caution

Please note that this command also ends those connections to this database instance that you opened using other tools, such as Database Studio, in addition to the DBM server processes.

End of the caution.

You can specifiy the process ID to define that only a certain DBM server process be stopped.

According to the system default value, the command is only successful if the commands that are still being executed are ended within 2 minutes. New commands are still accepted at this time, but are no longer executed. If this DBM command takes longer to execute, the system does not close the DBM server connections to the database instance.

You can enter an option in the command to force the system to close the DBM server connection/s. Instead of waiting until current DBM commands have finished, the system stops the DBM server/s immediately.

Prerequisites

Structure

dbm_stop [-f] [<PID>]

Option

Description

-f

If you specify this option, the connection of all DBM servers to the database instance, or of the server specified using PID, will be ended immediately, even if DBM commands are still being executed on the database instance via this connection.

Caution Caution

Therefore, use this command with extreme caution.

End of the caution.

The command line windows in question then no longer function. As soon as you enter another DBM command, an error message is displayed.

<PID>

Process ID of the DBM server which is to be ended.

Result

OK

In the event of errors, see Reply Format.