New Features in Sybase Control Center for SAP Sybase IQ

Brief descriptions of new and enhanced features with links to complete information.

New and Enhanced Features in Sybase Control Center for SAP Sybase IQ
Feature Topics

Role-based security administration – Perform user and role management for role-based users, user-extended roles, and standalone roles. Tasks include create, modify and delete, as well as grant and revoke system privileges and object permissions to users and roles.

Role-Based Security

Domain administration – Create, view and update domains. The Administration Console tree lists domains under schema objects.

Domains

External environment administration – In previous releases, only the Java external environment was supported. In SCC 3.2.7, you can administer these external environments: ODBC, ESQL, .NET, Java, Perl, PHP.

External Environments

Table administration – Perform table management tasks such as creating/deleting a base table and moving a table to another dbspace.

Tables

Table column administration – Add, modify, and delete table columns.

Table Columns

Table constraint administration – Manage column check, foreign key, table check, and unique constraints.

Table Constraints

Table index administration – Add, modify, delete, rebuild, validate, and move indexes on table columns.

Table Indexes

Table partition administration – Create, modify, delete, unpartition, merge, split, and move table partitions.

Table Partitions

Table trigger administration – Create, modify, and delete triggers on tables.

Table Triggers

View administration – Perform view management tasks such as creating a view and recompiling a materialized view.

Views

View trigger administration – Create, modify, and delete triggers on views.

Triggers on Views

LDAP server administration - Create, modify, and delete LDAP servers.

LDAP Servers

Sequence Generator administration - Create, modify, and delete sequence generators.

Sequence Generators

Row-level Versioning (RLV) – Use the new RLV data store in your simplex database to perform row-level updates, inserts, and deletes, in real-time. When a table is enabled for storage in the RLV data store, multiple users can write to different rows of the table concurrently.

Creating a Dbspace

Creating a Dbfile

Enabling RLV in a Table

Remote Access – Access data from other data sources by creating Remote Server definitions, Proxy Tables, Remote Procedures and External Logins.

Remote Servers

External Logins

Proxy Tables

Remote Procedures

Web service administration – Perform web service management tasks such as creating, modifying, and deleting web services.

Web Services

Logical server administration – Logical server administration and monitoring and logical server policy administration have been enhanced.

Logical Servers

Key Performance Indicators for SAP Sybase IQ

Global transaction resiliency – Monitor the suspended, resumed, and rolled back status of INC (internode communication) connections for global transactions.

Viewing Multiplex Connection Statistics

Key Performance Indicators for SAP Sybase IQ

Spatial Data – Administer spatial reference systems, and spatial units of measure.

Spatial Support

Common Security Infrastructure – updates to the CSI improve SCC security and provide consistency across Sybase products.

Find a resource in the Administration Console – use new search and filter tools to locate objects of interest.

Searching and Filtering Resources

Login mappings – Map a Windows user profile or a Kerberos principal to an existing user in the database to maintain a single user ID for database connections, operating system, and network logins.

Manage Login Mappings

Transport layer security – Configure transport layer security with RSA encryption in a multiplex environment.

Editing the Multiplex Configuration File

Data retrieval options – you can set thresholds to improve performance of the Administration Console.

Configuring Retrieval Thresholds for the Administration Console

View and filter logs, copy and paste from log snapshots.

Using the SAP Sybase IQ Server and SCC Agent Logs

Message rows – the status of each object retrieval request is provided in a message row in the Administration Console. Message rows provide details for slow-responding requests, large result sets, and failed requests.

Browsing and Managing Resources

Administration scripts – The scripts sync_server.sh (.bat) and stop_server.sh (.bat) now require your login and password. For example sync_server.sh <login> <password>.

Generating Administration Scripts
Related concepts
Accessibility Features
Sybase Control Center Accessibility Information
Related tasks
Displaying the Versions of SCC Components
Related reference
User Interface Overview
Toolbar Icons
Status Icons
Common Display Options
Keyboard Shortcuts
Style and Syntax Conventions