Abaqus 2023 Viewer Execution empty session odb

Hi everyone,

when opening an odb from the command line with the noGUI option, why the odb actually is not opened?

When submitting the command abaqus viewer database=myodb.odb noGUI the python console opens as expected but the odb is not opened, the session.odbs object has no keys. What is the use of specifying the database option if I have to run session.openOdb(myodb.odb) in the python console afterwards? What am I missing?

Thanks for helping!