Overview of configuration

Open Client and Open Server software requires specific information to function correctly. Configuration is the process of setting up your system to make this information available.

Open Client and Open Server use configuration information to:

NoteExcept where noted, information in this document applies to both DB-Library and Client-Library.

Specifically, DB-Library does not use environment variables to determine initial localization values and does not examine the libtcl.cfg file. However, DB-Library does examine the SYBASE and DSQUERY environment variables.

For more information on DB-Library, see the Open Client DB-Library/C Reference Manual.