Introduction to Ribo

Ribo is a diagnostic utility tool that traces Tabular Data Stream™ (TDS) traffic flow between a TDS client and a TDS server.

The Ribo utility captures, translates, and displays the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) protocol flowing between a TDS client and a TDS server. TDS clients include jConnect™ for JDBC™, isql, Adaptive Server® Enterprise ODBC driver, and Open Client™. TDS servers include Adaptive Server Enterprise, Adaptive Server Anywhere, Sybase® IQ, and Open Server™.

See the TDS 5.0 Functional Specification at http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1040983 for more details.

You can use Ribo to:

Note: Captured TDS protocol data saved to a file contains sensitive user authentication information and may contain confidential company or customer data. To protect this confidential data from unauthorized or accidental disclosure, the files containing captured data must be properly protected using file permissions or encryption.