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Use

DBM is a class of the sapdb.dbm module. An instance of this class corresponds to a connection to a DBM Server.

Class Content

The DBM class contains the following methods:

cmd (cmd_string)

rawCmd (cmd_string)

release ()

Constructor Definition

DBM (database_server = '', database_name = '', dependent_path = '', user_info = '')

 

Parameter

Description

database_server

Network name of the computer that is to be connected.

The default system value is the local computer.

database_name

Name of the database instance that is to be connected.

This information is optional.

dependent_path

Installation path of the database software (See also: Directory Structure)

This information is optional.

user_info

A string in the format <username>,<password>

The specified user logs on to the DBM Server program.

Note

If there are multiple installations of the database software on your computer, you can use the database_name and dependent_path parameters to control which version of the DBM Server program is started.

Case 1 – You want to create a new database instance with the latest software installation or you want to display information about the existing database instances and software versions:

Do not specify database_name or dependent_path.

The system then starts the DBM Server of the software installation that has the highest version number.

Case 2 – You want to administer a specific database instance.

Specify database_name, but do not specify dependent_path.

The system then starts the DBM Server that corresponds to the specified database instance.

Case 3 – You want to create a new database instance for a specific software version.

Specify dependent_path, but do not specify database_name.

The system then starts the DBM Server of the specified software installation.

Example

To generate a session connection object on the current computer for the TST database, specify the following:

session = sapdb.dbm.DBM ('', 'TST', '', 'DBM,DBM')

 

To generate a session connection object for the remoteserver computer and choose the DBM Server of the software installation located in the /usr/local/sdb/7500 directory, specify the following:

session = sapdb.dbm.DBM ('remoteserver', '', '/usr/local/sdb/7500')

 

To create a session connection object on the current computer for the DBM Server of the current software installation:

session = sapdb.dbm.DBM ('', '')

 

 

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