How to Invoke onutil

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How to Invoke onutil

Before you invoke onutil, note the following items:

To execute the onutil CHECK options, you must be user informix or root on UNIX.
You can invoke certain onutil commands in offline mode. To start onutil in offline mode, use the -o option.
```
onutil -o 
```

You can execute the onutil command in the following input modes:

Input from a file
Interactive input
Single command

Important:

Although onutil commands resemble SQL, you cannot use them in queries, and onutil cannot use standard SQL statements. Neither DB-Access nor any other SQL utility or application supports them. Only onutil supports them.