Starting Adaptive Servers

You can start Adaptive Server and associated servers manually or automatically after each restart.

StepsManually starting Adaptive Server and associated servers

  1. Disable automatic start-up of Adaptive Server and associated servers. To do this, select Services from the Control Panel (see the Microsoft Windows documentation on how to access this), and change the Startup property for the servers from Automatic to Disabled.

  2. Save the current values of SYBASE, SYBASE_OCS, INCLUDE, and PATH in a text file.

  3. Complete the SDK or Open Server installation as documented in the following installation sections.

  4. In the Control Panel, select System. Open the Advanced tab and click Environment Variables. Edit the value for the environment variables SYBASE, SYBASE_OCS, INCLUDE, and PATH with the values saved in the text file (step 2).

  5. Manually start the servers:

    • Open a command prompt and change to the pre-15.0 ASE SYBASE directory.

    • Execute the SYBASE.BAT file.

    • Start each server by using:

      startserver -f RUNfile
      

      where RUNfile is the batch file associated with each server.

StepsStarting Adaptive Server and associated servers automatically as services

  1. Disable automatic start-up of Adaptive Server and associated servers. To do this, select Services from the Control Panel, and change the Startup property of the servers from Automatic to Disabled.

  2. Save the current valuse of SYBASE, SYBASE_OCS, INCLUDE, and PATH in a text file.

  3. Complete the SDK or Open Server installation as documented in the following installation sections.

  4. In the Control Panel, select System. Open the Advanced tab and click Environment Variables. Change the values of the environment variables SYBASE, SYBASE_OCS, INCLUDE, and PATH to the values saved in the text file (see Step 2).

  5. Start the servers automatically as services. Click Services in the Control Panel and change the Startup property of the servers from Disabled to Automatic.