Before calling the CONTROL tool, you should make sure that the current kind of terminal allows for a faultless functioning with the ADABAS tools. Terminal Type Description and Identification of the present manual provides more information about this subject.
CONTROL is started as follows:
xcontrol -d <serverdb>
where <serverdb> is the name of the SERVERDB to be created. CONTROL requests all parameters required for the configuration, installs the SERVERDB, starts the SERVERDB, and installs the system tables.
A detailed description of the installation is provided in the CONTROL manual, Section 3.1 f.