DOMAIN opens with an empty screen and the following menu bar:
You can log onto the database by clicking on the Database / Open Database menu item. A list box containing a list of all ADABAS databases installed with the aid of the ODBC administrator is then displayed.
After selecting the desired database, a logon screen is displayed. Enter there username and password.
If DOMAIN has been used previously, it has noted the logon parameters that were used in the drop-down menu for the Database menu function. Click on this menu item if you wish to reuse these settings to log on directly. In this case, a dialog box is displayed only if a password is required for this user. As soon as the connection to the database is established, you can choose whether the password of this user should be saved or not by using the View / Options...Connect menu item.
Unless the username and password are enclosed in double quotation marks, they are converted to uppercase letters when entered in the logon screen. Double quotation marks are also required when the username contains special characters. If the username itself contains a double quote, the double quote must be entered twice.
If you click the 
button you can to connect to the database with the parameters of the last session - this corresponds to the first parameter set of the Database menu item.