Enabling Adaptive Server Enterprise Features

You can enable the following Adaptive Server Enterprise features manually or with the ASE Features Enabling wizard:

To enable features using the ASE Features Enabling wizard:

Make sure you have created a connection profile for an Adaptive Server Enterprise in Enterprise Explorer, and connect to the ASE server.
Expand the connection profile for your Adaptive Server Enterprise, select a database.
Right-click on the database and select Enable ASE Features in the context menu. The ASE Features Enabling wizard appears.
Note
If the Enable ASE Features option does not appear in the context menu, right-click your ASE server, choose Refresh from the context menu, and repeat the previous step.

Modify the following fields.

General settings

Field	Example
Features	Select the features to be enabled: XML – Click this check box to enable the XML Services feature. Real Time Messaging – Click this check box to enable Real-Time Messaging Services. Web Service – Click this check box to enable the Web Services feature. Check boxes are disabled for features that have already been enabled.
Environment settings	To specify your installation directory for Sybase products, type the path in the text field, or click Browse to select the path. In the ASE Server name text field, enter the name of the server on which your Adaptive Server Enterprise resides.
XML feature options	Specify XML feature options: Install Java-based XML mapping functions – This option is required if you want to use SQL-to-XML and XML-to-SQL mapping wizards. Increase database space if necessary – This option increases the size of database devices as required when enabling ASE features.
Real Time Messaging feature options	Specify logins for which to grant the messaging_role privilege. This field is disabled if the Real-Time Messaging Services feature has already been enabled.

Click Finish to begin enabling the specified ASE features.
- If the configuration is successful, the selected ASE features are enabled, and you can run the Real-Time Messaging Wizard and the SQL/XML Wizard.
- If the configuration is unsuccessful, errors are displayed in the SQL Results view.