The OpenEdge auto-connect feature allows you to connect to databases automatically as required during program execution. To perform an auto-connect operation, OpenEdge uses information stored in a primary database to connect to a secondary application database, before running compiled procedures that access the second database. The primary database (the one that contains the auto-connect information for one or more additional databases) must be connected before OpenEdge can perform an auto-connect.

Use the Data Administration tool to build an auto-connect list for a primary database.

To create or to edit an auto-connect list:

  1. Access the Data Administration tool.
  2. Choose Edit Progress Auto-Connect ListUtilities. The Edit Auto-Connect List dialog box appears:
  3. Enter or edit connection information for a database.

If you connect to a database with the CONNECT statement, and that database also has an auto-connect entry in an already connected database, the connection information from both the CONNECT statement and the auto-connect list is merged. In this situation, the connection information in the CONNECT statement takes precedence. For more information about the CONNECT statement, see ABL Reference.

If the primary database is a schema holder for a DataServer schema, the DataServer schema is automatically included in the auto-connect list, but it does not appear on the auto-connect list as viewed from the Data Dictionary.