SAP Sybase IQ versions earlier than 16.0 used object-level permissions such as ALTER and SELECT for tables and views. These permissions are now called object-level privileges.
When you upgrade your database, users granted permissions are automatically granted the equivalent object-level privileges.
SQL statements that grant or revoke object-level permissions/privileges still work.
In addition to object-level privileges, there are now grantable system privileges for every authorized operation.