PC-Client product descriptions and directory layout

Sybase has certified PC-Client for:

Windows 2003, 2008, XP, and Vista
SDK on Windows 32-bit and 64-bit systems
Power Transfer 15.0.3 on Windows 2003, XP, and Vista
Power Designer 12.5 on Windows 2003, XP and Vista
InfoMaker 11.5 on Windows 2003, XP and Vista

If you are using ODBC, OLE DB or ADO.NET Drivers, then you must have Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 installed on your system. The installer produces errors during installation and the drivers do function without this service pack installed.

To check whether you have this service pack installed:

Open Add or Remove Programs item from the Control Panel. If NET Framework is listed under Currently installed programs then you do not need to update your system.

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 (Client Library, 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	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 6 – Sybase Central is a Java-based framework used by the system management tools. 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.
Language Modules	Installed into the 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.
Agent Management Console	This is a Sybase Central plug-in that manages the Unified Agent. It is installed into the AMCP directory.
Interactive SQL	Interactive SQL is a GUI tool that allows you to execute SQL statements, build scripts, and display data from Adaptive Server. It is installed into the DBISQL directory.
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.