DataFlux Data Management Studio 2.5: User Guide

Using Configuration Files

As described in Setting Global Options, you can set some default options from the Data Management Studio Options dialog. This dialog saves changes to the ui.cfg file, which can exist in the installation folder and in a Windows profile for a user. Do not modify the ui.cfg file directly. Use the Data Management Studio Options dialog to change these options.

Other settings are controlled in configuration files. The main DataFlux Data Management Studio configuration files are as follows:

app.cfg. Can exist in the installation folder and in a Windows profile for a user.

batch.cfg. Contains settings used by the dmpexec utility, which is used to execute jobs from the command line. For more information about dmpexec, see Running Jobs from the Command Line.

For a description of the options that can be set in these configuration files, see the "Configuration Options", "Logging Options", and "Data Access Component Directives" topics in the DataFlux Data Management Studio Installation and Configuration Guide.

How Data Management Studio Uses Configuration Files

When DataFlux Data Management Studio starts, it will determine which configuration options are in effect by reading a series of configuration files, by looking in the environment, and by reading the command line. If there are two settings of the same name that exist in different configuration settings, the order in which the settings are read in determines which value is used. The last value read is used as the configuration setting.

DataFlux Data Management Studio reads configuration settings in this order:

1. The app.cfg file in the etc folder where DataFlux Data Management Studio is installed.
2. The app.cfg file in a user folder, such as drive:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\DataFlux\DataManagement\VERSION.
3. The application-specific configuration files in the etc folder, such as ui.cfg or dmserver.cfg.
4. The application-specific configuration files in a user folder.
5. The macros folder in the etc folder. The default path to the macros folder can be overridden with BASE/MACROS_PATH setting in the above configuration files.
6. The macros folder in a user folder.
7. The environment variables.
8. The command-line options if applicable.