You can start the Ingres Menu or an Ingres forms-based tool by entering a startup command on the operating system command line. You must specify the database in which you want to work by including its name after the command to start the Ingres Menu or the Ingres tool and before any other non‑flag parameters, as follows:

For example, to start the Ingres Menu with access to the personnel database, enter the following command:

Depending on the type and location of the database you want to access, you must sometimes specify the server type or location of the database in addition to its name.

The following table shows when you are required to specify the server type or location of the database: