The OpenEdge installation program prompts you to enter product information contained in your License Addendum file. During the installation process, the installation program records the license information in the OpenEdge configuration file, progress.cfg, which is located in the OpenEdge installation directory. You can use the SHOWCFG utility to display licensing information, product installation, and configuration details about each OpenEdge product that is installed.

Use the SHOWCFG utility on Windows

The SHOWCFG utility displays product installation and configuration information for each OpenEdge product installed on your system. The following table describes the different ways to run the SHOWCFG utility.

Table 1. Running the SHOWCFG utility
To run the SHOWCFG utility from the ... Then ...
Start menu Choose Progress > License Info
Command line of the Proenv window Enter the showcfg command

The SHOWCFG utility opens the OpenEdge Configuration Information dialog box to display the product configuration information stored in the OpenEdge configuration file progress.cfg. This file is created and modified during product installation.

The following figure shows an example of the OpenEdge Configuration Information dialog box.



The following table summarizes the information that SHOWCFG displays.

Table 2. Display fields associated with the SHOWCFG utility
This display field ... Identifies the ...
Product Name Name of the installed product
Installation Date Date the product was installed
Expiration Date Date the license expires
Serial Number Number associated with the license agreement
Control Numbers Numbers used by the OpenEdge installation software
Version Number Software product version
Machine Class Tier code associated with the license agreement
Port Number Platform on which the software product is installed

Use the SHOWCFG utility on Linux

The SHOWCFG utility has the following syntax: 

<OpenEdge-install-dir>/bin/showcfg <OpenEdge-install-dir>/progress.cfg

For example:

/userdir/smith/101b/bin/showcfg /userdir/smith/101b/progress.cfg

The SHOWCFG utility displays the product configuration information stored in the OpenEdge configuration file progress.cfg, which is created and modified during product installation.

The following figure shows an example:

Figure 1. Product configuration details display using SHOWCFG utility