Open Client Architecture

The primary documentation for Sybase Open Client application development is the Open Client documentation, available from Sybase. This section describes features specific to SAP Sybase IQ, but it is not an exhaustive guide to Sybase Open Client application programming.

Sybase Open Client has two components: programming interfaces and network services.

• DB-Library and Client Library
  Sybase Open Client provides two core programming interfaces for writing client applications: DB-Library and Client-Library.
• Network Services
  Open Client network services include Sybase Net-Library, which provides support for specific network protocols such as TCP/IP and DECnet. The Net-Library interface is invisible to application developers. However, on some platforms, an application may need a different Net-Library driver for different system network configurations. Depending on your host platform, the Net-Library driver is specified either by the system's Sybase configuration or when you compile and link your programs.