CHAPTER 1 Overview

Installing ODBC driver from ASE 15.x or SDK 15.x on top of an IQ 12.6 installation might produce a warning. You can ignore this warning. The ODBC driver will be functional at the end of the install.

PC-Client product descriptions and directory layout

 

The following products are installed as Adaptive Server PC-Client products. In

 

addition to these products, there are several separately installed products listed

 

in the following sections.

 

Table 1-4: Products and platforms

 

 

Product

Description

 

 

Software Developer Kit

Installed into the OCS-15_0directory.

(SDK)

• Open Client ( Ctlib, dblib)

 

 

ESQL/C

 

Monitor Client Library

 

ESQL/COBOL

 

XA

 

Installed into the DataAccess directory:

 

• ODBC (Windows and Linux only ) – a driver used to connect to Adaptive Server

 

 

from ODBC based applications.

 

• OLEDB (Windows only) – a provider used to connect to Adaptive Server from

 

 

OLE DB-based applications.

 

• ADO.NET (Windows only) – a provider used to connect to Adaptive Server from

 

 

.NET based applications.

 

 

Windows Cluster Server

Windows Cluster Administrator is a GUI tool for managing Microsoft Cluster Server

Admin utilities

(MSCS). It can be used to create, modify and displays the information of groups,

 

resources and the cluster itself. There is also an alternative command-line tool called

 

Cluster.exe for cluster administration.

 

 

Shared-executables and

The shared directory contains components and libraries that are shared by several

libraries used by various

other components. In earlier versions, this directory was named shared-1_0.

components

• Sybase Central – Sybase Central is a Java-based framework used by the system

 

 

 

management tools. In earlier versions, this component was placed into a top-level

 

 

directory rather than in a shared directory.

 

• JRE – The Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is a runtime Java virtual machine

 

 

used to execute Java-based programs such as Sybase Central.

 

 

Adaptive Server Plug-in

Installed into ASEP directory. This plug-in contains the management software for

 

managing Adaptive Server and its associated servers.

 

 

 

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Sybase 15.0.2 manual PC-Client product descriptions and directory layout, Products and platforms

15.0.2 specifications

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