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 1-9: Products descriptions

Product

Description

Software Developer Kit (SDK)

Installed into the %SYBASE_OCS% directory.

  • Connectivity:

    • Open Client (Client-Library, dblib)

    • Embedded SQL™/COBOL 15.0

    • XA interface for Adaptive Sever

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.

PC-Client Administration Tools

  • Sybase Central™ 4.x is a Java-based framework used by the system management tools. Installed into the Shared directory

  • Adaptive Server plug-in. Sybase Central plug-in that provides cluster configuration and complete administration functionality. Installed into ASEP directory.

  • sybcluster – interactive command line interface for configuring and managing the cluster installed in the %SYBASE%\%SYBASE_ASE%\/install directory.

  • Job Scheduler templates and utilities

  • Unified Agent server – provides a container for mid-tier management application logic accessed by the ASE plug-in and sybcluster. It is installed in the UAF-2_5 directory.

  • Agent Management Console – Sybase Central plug-in that manages the Unified Agent. It is installed into the AMCP directory.

  • Interactive SQL– interactive command line interface for configuring and managing the cluster. It is installed into the %SYBASE%\%SYBASE_ASE%\bin directory.

  • JRE – the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is a runtime Java virtual machine used to execute Java-based programs such as Sybase Central. Installed into the %SYBASE%\Shared\Sybase Central 4.3\win32 directory

  • The Cluster Edition Administration Utility is installed to %SYBASE%\SDCADMIN-15_0

  • jutils-2_0 - A collection of Adaptive Server utility programs including:

    • jisql – a JDBC-based GUI isql tool.

    • ribo – a tool to trace TDS traffic between client program and Adaptive Server.

Language Modules

Installed into the %SYBASE%\locales directory. Provides system messages and date/time formats.

Character Sets

Installed into the charsets directory. Provides character sets available for use with Adaptive Server.

jConnect

Installed into the jConnect-6_0 directory. Provides a Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver for Adaptive Server.