The updatease Utility

The updatease utility reinstalls scripts and updates system stored procedures and messages after a minor upgrade.

The updatease executable file is located in the $SYBASE/SYBASE_ASE/bin/ directory.

When you perform a minor upgrade/update from Adaptive Server version 15.0 and later, you must also reinstall the scripts in $SYBASE/ASE-15_0/scripts/ as well as update the system stored procedures and messages from the earlier version of Adaptive Server.

updatease can perform these tasks for you.

Note: If you performed the minor upgrade using the Adaptive Server installer, the installer ran updatease in the background; you need not perform any additional steps.

Syntax

updatease -Sserver_name -PASE_password -k

Parameters

-Sserver_name – specifies the Adaptive Server you are updating.
-PASE_password – is the Adaptive Server "sa" password. If you do not specify this, updatease obtains the information from the SYBASE_ASE_SA_PWD environment variable or at the prompt.
-k – (optional) when specified, skips the database free-space check.

Permissions

To use updatease, you must be a Sybase system administrator, or log in with the sa_role.