Unable to determine the database engine

What was the error?

Message Number: 4013

Message Severity: Error

Message Name: ARS4013E

What were you doing?

Probably trying to run arsdb or arssockd with the -I parameter.

Example

$ arsdb -u -I PROD
arsdb:  ARS4013E Unable to determine the database engine

Troubleshooting

It's not very clear which of the parameters in the ars.ini file are to be used for what purpose.

[@SRV@_ARCHIVE]               <=- CMOD Instance Name to be used with arsdb, arsmaint and arssockd.
HOST=
PROTOCOL=2
PORT=0
SRVR_INSTANCE=ARCHIVE         <=- The name of the DB2/Oracle database that CMOD stores index data in.
SRVR_INSTANCE_OWNER=odadmin   <=- The User name of the UNIX account that runs arssockd & owns database tables.