Error 5704 in the OpenVMS Backup Server error log

Error 5704: "Changed client character set setting to '%.*s'” appears in the System 11 Backup Server error log on OpenVMS, even when the character sets and language of the Backup Server and the Adaptive Server appear the same. The errors are written every time a dump or load command is issued. Logging in to the Backup Server and immediately exiting generates this error as well.

The Adaptive Server error log reports the following:

00:97/02/14 15:40:50.59 server  SQL Server's default sort order is:
00:97/02/14 15:40:50.69 server          'bin_iso_1' (ID = 50)
00:97/02/14 15:40:50.79 server  on top of default character set:
00:97/02/14 15:40:50.89 server          'iso_1' (ID = 1).

The runserver file for the Backup Server appears as follows:

$ define sybase_system DISK$TECH_SUPPORT:[REL1002.]
$ define sybase sybase_system:[sybase]
$ backup_server:==$DISK$TECH_SUPPORT:[REL1002.SYBASE.bin]backup-server.exe
$ backup_server /SERVER_NAME="BCK_RAPIDF" -
/ERRORLOG=DISK$TECH_SUPPORT:[REL1002.SYBASE.install]log.BCK_RAPIDF -
/INTERFACES_FILE=DISK$TECH_SUPPORT:[REL1002.SYBASE]interfaces.-
/LANGUAGE=us_english -
/CHARACTER_SET=iso_1 

Even though the character sets for the Backup Server and the Adaptive Server appear to be identical, they are not so to the backupserver.exe program. OpenVMS DCL Command Language Interpreter converts command string tokens, except the strings enclosed in double quotes, to uppercase before returning the parsed commands to the calling programs.

Consequently, to log into the Adaptive Server you must specify your user name in quotes as in the following command:

isql/user_name="sa". 

Similarly, the strings 'us_english' and 'iso_1' seen above in single quotes are converted to uppercase. This causes backupserver.exe to interpret these strings in an unexpected manner.

NoteThe runserver file is created in this manner by the sybinit.exe program.

To correct this problem, edit the Backup Server runserver file, enclosing the two strings in double quotes as follows:

/LANGUAGE="us_english" -
/CHARACTER_SET="iso_1"