Sybase 15.0.2 User Manual

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CHAPTER 1 Overview

Installation Guide Evaluation Version

11

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
(SDK)

Installed into the OCS-15_0 directory.

• 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
Admin utilities

Windows Cluster Administrator is a GUI tool for managing Microsoft Cluster Server
(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
libraries used by various
components

The shared directory contains components and libraries that are shared by several
other components. In earlier versions, this directory was named shared-1_0.

• 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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