About setting overrides

The Control Interpreter allows you to override brick settings on the command line. This feature is useful when you have a single control script file that you want to use in multiple environments.

In general, override settings are specified only for items that vary among multiple environments. Oracle recommends that, if a setting has different values in different environments, you omit a value for the setting in the control script. Instead, the value is be provided by the override settings.

When you specify overrides, you can provide either the new value for a specific setting on the command line itself, or the name of a file that contains setting overrides.

Note: In most circumstances, overrides are provided using an override file.

The syntax for specifying a file containing overrides is:

--override-file <pathname>

where <pathname> is the full pathname to the override file.

The syntax for overriding a specific setting is:

--override <setting>=<value>

where <setting> is the setting you want to override and <value> is the new value you want the Control Interpreter to use.

You can use --override and --override-file with both the DefineJobs utility and the RunCommand utility.