Invoking Natural with an Alternative Parameter File

By default, Natural Studio and Natural Runtime are invoked with the parameter file NATPARM. When you have created your own customized parameter file, you can also invoke Natural Studio and Natural Runtime with this parameter file.

See also Dynamic Assignment of Parameter Values in the Operations documentation.

Start of instruction setTo invoke Natural Studio with an alternative parameter file

  • Invoke the properties of the shortcut that is used to start Natural Studio and specify the following after natural.exe in the Target text box: PARM=parameter-file. Example:

    "C:\Program Files\Software AG\Natural\version-number\bin\natural.exe" PARM=myparm

Start of instruction setTo invoke Natural Runtime with an alternative parameter file

  • Invoke the properties of the shortcut that is used to start Natural Runtime and specify the following after naturalr.exe in the Target text box: PARM=parameter-file. Example:

    "C:\Program Files\Software AG\Natural\version-number\bin\naturalr.exe" PARM=myparm