After-image File Management Archive Directory List (-aiarcdir)
- Last Updated: January 27, 2026
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- Version 12.8
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Use After-image File Management Archive Directory List (-aiarcdir) to specify the directories where the AI File Management
utility writes the archived after-image files.
| Operating system and syntax | UNIX / Windows |
-aiarcdir
dirlist
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use with | Maximum value | Minimum value | Single-user default | Multi-user default |
| Database Server | — | — | — | — |
- dirlist
- A comma separated list of directories where archived after-image files are written by
the AI File Management Utility. The directory names can not have any embedded spaces.
When you specify multiple directories, separate the directories with a comma and without
embedded spaces. In Windows, enclose the list of directory names in double quotes. For
example:
- In Linux:
-aiarchdir folder1,folder2 - In Windows:
-aiarchdir "folder1,folder2"
- In Linux:
Note:
- The After-image File Management Archive Directory List (-
aiarcdir) parameter can be updated while the database is running. - This parameter is useful only when running the AI File Management utility.