The dataserver, diagserver, backupserver, isql, bcp, buildmaster (12.0.x and earlier), defncopy, and langinstall binaries return version information when executed with a -v or /version flag.
diagserver is a diagnostic version
of dataserver. Sybase Technical Support may ask
you to run diagserver to help in problem solving.
The following examples are from UNIX:
% /usr/sybase/ASE-12_5/bin/dataserver -v
Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5.0.1/SWR 9981 IR/P/Sun_svr4/OS 5.8/rel12501/1776/32-bit/FBO/Mon Feb 25 23:35:46 2002
% /usr/sybase/prod/rel125/ASE-12_5/bin/dataserver -v
Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5/SWR 9613 GA/P/HP9000-829/HP-UX 11.0 /main/1647/32-bit/FBO/Sat Jun 2 02:14:45 2001
% /usr/sybase/ASE-12_5/bin/backupserver -v
Backup Server/12.5.0.1/SWR 9981 IR/P/Sun_svr4/OS 5.8 /rel125x/2208/32-bit/OPT/Tue Feb 26 03:03:59 2002
% bin/diagserver -v
Adaptive Server Enterprise/12.5/SWR 9611 GA/P/RS6000/AIX 4.3.3 /main/1647/32-bit/DEBUG/Fri Jun 1 17:25:45 2001
The following example is from OpenVMS:
$ server :== $sybase_system:[sybase.bin]dataserver.exe
$ server/version
SQL Server/11.0.1/P/VMS/5.4-1A+/1/OPT /28-MAY-1997 18:37:38.53
