Neoview Command Interface (NCI) Guide (R2.5)

Table of Contents
About This Document.......................................................................................................17
Intended Audience................................................................................................................................17
Document Organization.......................................................................................................................17
New and Changed Information in This Edition...................................................................................17
Notation Conventions...........................................................................................................................18
General Syntax Notation.................................................................................................................18
Related Documentation........................................................................................................................20
Neoview Customer Library.............................................................................................................20
Publishing History................................................................................................................................22
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................22
1 Introduction to NCI......................................................................................................23
2 Installing and Configuring NCI..................................................................................25
Installing NCI........................................................................................................................................25
Setting the Look and Feel of NCI..........................................................................................................25
Supported Look-and-Feel Types.....................................................................................................25
Setting the Look and Feel at a Command-Line Prompt..................................................................26
Setting the Look and Feel in the System Properties on Windows..................................................27
Setting the Look and Feel in the User Profile on Linux or UNIX....................................................29
Setting the Trace Option..................................................................................................................29
Testing the Launch of NCI....................................................................................................................29
3 Launching NCI.............................................................................................................31
Launching NCI on Windows................................................................................................................31
Creating a Shortcut to hpnci.cmd....................................................................................................31
Launching NCI on Linux or UNIX.......................................................................................................34
Setting the PATH of hpnci.sh...........................................................................................................34
Presetting the Optional Launch Parameters....................................................................................34
Logging In to the Database Platform....................................................................................................35
Logging In Without Using Login Parameters.................................................................................35
Using Login Parameters..................................................................................................................36
Retrying the Login...........................................................................................................................37
Using Optional Launch Parameters......................................................................................................38
Running a Command When Launching NCI..................................................................................40
Running a Script File When Launching NCI...................................................................................41
Launching NCI Without Connecting to the Database....................................................................42
Running NCI With -version............................................................................................................42
Running NCI With -help.................................................................................................................42
Exiting NCI...........................................................................................................................................43
4 Running Commands Interactively in NCI...................................................................45
Neoview Command Interface...............................................................................................................45
Product Banner................................................................................................................................45
Interface Prompts............................................................................................................................45
Breaking the Command Line...........................................................................................................45
Case Sensitivity................................................................................................................................46
Using NCI Interface Commands..........................................................................................................46
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