PC-Client Product Descriptions and Layout

An Adaptive Server installation includes additional products that are installed into specific directories.

ProductDescription
Software Developer Kit (SDK)
Installed into the OCS-15_0 directory:
  • Open Client™ (Client Library, dblib)
  • ESQL/C
  • ESQL/COBOL
  • XA
  • Adaptive Server Enterprise extension module for Python
  • Adaptive Server Enterprise database driver for Perl
  • Adaptive Server Enterprise extension module for PHP
DataAccess
Installed into the DataAccess[64] directories:
  • (Windows and Linux only) ODBC – a driver used to connect to Adaptive Server from ODBC-based applications.
  • (Windows only) OLEDB – a provider used to connect to Adaptive Server from OLE DB-based applications.
  • (Windows only) ADO.NET – 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). Use it to create, modify and display group, resource, and cluster information. There is also an alternative command line tool called Cluster.exe for cluster administration.
PC-Client Administration Tools
  • sybcluster – is an interactive command line interface for configuring and managing the cluster installed in the %SYBASE%\SDCADMIN-15_0\bin directory.
  • Interactive SQL – interactive command line interface for configuring and managing the cluster. It is installed into the %SYBASE%\DBISQL directory.
  • Java Runtime Environment (JRE) – is a runtime Java virtual machine used to execute Java-based programs such as Sybase Control Center. Installed into the %SYBASE%\Shared\JRE-7_0* directory.
  • The Administration Utility is installed in %SYBASE%\SDCADMIN-15_0.
  • jutils-3_0 – is a collection of Adaptive Server utility programs including ribo, a tool to trace TDS traffic between client program and Adaptive Server.
  • Sybase Central 6.x – is a Java-based framework used by the system management tools. Installed into the Shared directory.

    The ASEPlugin.jar file is located in ASEP\lib, while the scjview.exe executable to start Sybase Central with the ASE plug-in is located in shared\Sybase Central 6.0.0\[win32,win64].

  • Adaptive Server plug-in – is a Sybase Central plug-in that provides cluster configuration and administration functionality up to Adaptive Server 15.5. Installed into the ASEP directory.
    Note: Sybase Central and the Adaptive Server plug-in do not support the new features and functionality introduced in Adaptive Server 15.7. For this reason, Sybase recommends that you instead use Sybase Control Center.

    The PC-Client CD does not include the Adaptive Server plug-in for Sybase Central (which contains software for managing Sybase servers). If you need Sybase Central for backward-compatibility support of features from Adaptive Server version 15.5, download it from http://downloads.sybase.com.

    To monitor and manage Adaptive Server—including the features introduced in this version—using a graphical user interface, use Sybase Control Center. The SCC agent for Adaptive Server is installed as part of a Typical installation of Adaptive Server, while the SCC Management User Interface for Adaptive Server is available in the Custom installation option.

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-7_0 directory. Provides a Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver for Adaptive Server.
Uninstaller
Installed into the sybuninstall/PCClient directory.
Related concepts
Managing Adaptive Server Enterprise with Sybase Control Center