PROUTIL DESCRIBE provides information about your database and enabled features. Use PROUTIL DESCRIBE to confirm that:

  • Encryption is enabled on your database
  • BI encryption is enabled on your database
  • AI encryption is enabled on your database

You can also use PROUTIL DESCRIBE to check collation and character set information for the database.

The following figure shows the output of PROUTIL DESCRIBE.

Figure 1. Output of PROUTIL DESCRIBE
OpenEdge Database Description

Database Name               : /usr1/dbs/sample_db
Version                     : 173.0
Block Size                  : 8192
Largest Cluster             : 64
Create Date                 : Mon Dec 10 13:04:58 2012
Last Open Date              : Mon Dec 10 13:25:24 2012
Prior Open Date             : Mon Dec 10 13:25:24 2012
Schema Change Date          : Mon Dec 10 13:05:09 2012

 Before Imaging information
  Block Size                : 8192
  Cluster Size (16K Units)  : 32
  Last Open Date            : Mon Dec 10 13:05:25 2012
  Bi Encryption             : Enabled AES_ECB_128 

 After Imaging Information
  Block Size                : 8192
  Begin Date                : Mon Dec 10 13:05:25 2012
  Last AIMAGE NEW           : Mon Dec 10 13:05:26 2012
  Currently Busy Area       : 13
  Current File Number       : 2
  Ai Encryption             : Enabled AES_ECB_256 

 Backup Information
  Last Full Backup Date     : Mon Dec 10 13:05:17 2012
  Last Incremental Backup   : *** Not yet performed ***

 Collation and Character Set Information
   Database code page       : utf-8
   Database collation	   : ICU-UCA   
   Word-rule file number	: 254
   Word-rule file CRC	   : 53664  

Database Features

    ID   Feature                            Active  Details
  ----  ---------------------------------  ------  -------
     1  OpenEdge Replication               Yes     Source database
     7  JTA                                Yes
     9  64 Bit DBKEYS                      Yes      
    10  Large Keys                         Yes      
    11  64 Bit Sequences                   Yes      
    13  Encryption                         Yes 
    14  Multi-tenancy                      Yes
    15  Concurrent JTA and Replication     Yes

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