This book is for the system administrator who is responsible for installing and configuring e-Biz Impact™.
This book contains these chapters:
Chapter 1, “Installing the e-Biz Impact Client,” tells how to prepare and install the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on a client workstation.
Chapter 2, “Installing the e-Biz Impact Server,” tells how to prepare for and run an installation.
Chapter 3, “Uninstalling e-Biz Impact,” tells how to uninstall and reinstall e-Biz Impact.
Chapter 4, “Upgrading e-Biz Impact,” describes how to migrate cluster components from an earlier version of e-Biz Impact to version 5.5.
e-Biz Impact documentation The following documents are available on the Sybase® Getting Started CD in the e-Biz Impact product container:
The e-Biz Impact installation guide (this book) explains how to install the e-Biz Impact software.
The e-Biz Impact release bulletin contains last-minute information not documented elsewhere.
e-Biz Impact online documentation The following e-Biz Impact documents are available in PDF and DynaText format on the e-Biz Impact SyBooks CD:
The e-Biz Impact Authorization Guide explains how to configure e-Biz Impact security.
e-Biz Impact Command Line Tools describes how to execute e-Biz Impact functionality from a command line.
The e-Biz Impact Configurator Guide explains how to configure e-Biz Impact using the Configurator.
The e-Biz Impact Feature Guide describes new features, documentation updates, and fixed problems in this version of e-Biz Impact.
The e-Biz Impact Getting Started Guide provides information to help you quickly become familiar with e-Biz Impact.
Monitoring e-Biz Impact explains how to use the Global Console, the Event Monitor, and alerts to monitor e-Biz Impact transactions and events. It also describes how e-Biz Impact uses the standard Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Java Support in e-Biz Impact describes the Java support available in e-Biz Impact.
The e-Biz Impact MSG-IDE Guide describes MSG-IDE terminology and explains basic concepts that are used to build Object Definition Language (ODL) applications.
The e-Biz Impact ODL Guide provides a reference to Object Definition Language (ODL) functions and objects. ODL is a high-level programming language that lets the developer further customize programs created with the IDE tools. This guide also provides information about the different types of applications you create and use in an e-Biz Impact implementation
The e-Biz Impact TRAN-IDE Guide describes how to use the TRAN-IDE tool to build e-Biz Impact production objects, which define incoming data and the output transactions produced from that data.
The e-Biz Impact Application Guide has
been incorporated into the e-Biz Impact ODL Guide.
The e-Biz Impact Alerts Guide, the e-Biz Impact SNMP Guide, and the e-Biz Impact Global Console Guide have been combined into a new guide—Monitoring e-Biz Impact.
Adaptive Server Anywhere documentation The e-Biz Impact installation includes Adaptive Server® Anywhere, which is used to set up a Data Source Name (DSN) used with e-Biz Impact security and authorization. To reference Adaptive Server Anywhere documentation, go to the Sybase Product Manuals Web site at Product Manuals, select SQL Anywhere Studio from the product drop-down list, and click Go.
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