General Commands for the Siebel ARM Query Tool

This topic is part of Analyzing Siebel ARM Files Using the Siebel ARM Query Tool. It describes the general options for use with the Siebel ARM Query Tool.

Siebel ARM Query Tool options include commands to display online help and to display progress information to the command window. The following table describes these commands.

Flag

Description

-help

Prints help.

-copyright

Prints copyright information about the Siebel ARM Query Tool.

-tips

Prints the command-line syntax to accomplish common aggregations, reports, and conversions.

-macrosyntax

The Siebel ARM Query Tool supports a macro language. This flag prints the syntax of the macro language. For more information about using macros, see Using Macros with the Siebel ARM Query Tool.

-planonly

Prints an execution plan for a query, without executing the query.

-quiet

Prints results only to the output console. No progress information appears when you specify this flag.

You can also specify to save progress information to a file, as noted in Configuring the Siebel ARM Query Tool. The following example saves progress information to the file verbose.txt:

> sarmquery –output verbose=verbose.txt –input data.sarm -aggregate time=1