Diagnostic field separator (-diagFS)
- Last Updated: February 11, 2026
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Use Diagnostic field separator (-diagFS) to
specify the separator to use when writing diagnostic data to a CSV-formatted file.
| Operating system and syntax | UNIX / Windows |
-diagFS
separator
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use with | Maximum value | Minimum value | Single-user default | Multi-user default |
| Database Server | — | — | — | " " (single space) |
- separator
- A printable ASCII character to separate fields in the diagnostic
CSV-formatted output files. You can specify a tab ("\t") by specifying the string
"
tab".
To change this parameter while the database is running, use PROMON or the _DbParams VST.
You can use this parameter to support continuous operation of the database. For more information, see Change database parameters while the database is running.