Known Problems for Adaptive Server Plug-In

This section discusses Interactive SQL and Adaptive Server Enterprise plug-in issues and their workarounds.

Table 1. Nonplatform-specific plug-in issues

CR #

Description

487524

During create cluster command, sybcluster reports a permission error

You may see an error message from sybcluster that you do not have write permission to the directory in which raw devices are configured during the create cluster command. This happens when the name of the device is misspelled, or if no device by the specified name exists.

Workaround : Reenter the name of an existing device.

478875

Dropping instance in Adaptive Server plug-in functionality cannot drop connected instance

You cannot drop a connected instance in the Adaptive Server plug-in. If you drop a connected instance, your connection is lost as soon as the instance is shut down.

Workaround : Connect to another instance in the cluster before shutting down the instance to drop.

469418

Reconnecting Adaptive Server plug-in does not occur automatically

When the Adaptive Server plug-in is connected to a cluster through an instance that stops responding, the plug-in does not automatically reconnect to another running instance.

Workaround : Use host:port to reconnect to another running instance.


Created June 19, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com