@filename can be reused for several utilities   Command parameter files can now be selectively parsed for the utility using the parameter file. The parsing is based on simple conditional directives placed in the parameter file. See Using conditional parsing in configuration files.

Data Source utility (dbdsn) enhancements   The following options have been added to the dbdsn utility:

See Data Source utility (dbdsn).

Histogram utility (dbhist) enhancements   Sheets within the Excel output file created by dbhist are now named to reflect the column name they apply to, instead of Sheet1, Sheet2, and so on. See Histogram utility (dbhist).

Information utility (dbinfo) enhancements   The -u option now includes information about materialized views. See Information utility (dbinfo).

Initialization utility (dbinit) enhancements   The Initialization utility (dbinit) now supports the following new options:

See Initialization utility (dbinit).

Log Transfer Manager (LTM) enhancements   The Log Transfer Manager (LTM) utility, also known as the Replication Agent, now supports identifiers up to 128 bytes for table, column, procedure, function, and parameter names when using the Replication Agent with Replication Server 15.0 and Open Server/Open Client 15.0. In earlier versions of the software, identifiers were limited to 30 bytes. See Identifiers in Replication Server.

Timestamps in informational, warning, and error messages generated by dbltm now use the non-ambiguous ISO 8601 datetime format: {I|W|E} yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss message.

Ping utility (dbping) enhancements   You can use the Ping utility (dbping) to obtain information about the performance of embedded SQL connections and your network's performance by specifying the -s or -st options. These options report statistics about the performance between the computer running dbping and the computer running the database server. See Testing embedded SQL connection performance.

The -pd option now lets you specify the name of the database you want to obtain the property value from. See Ping utility (dbping).

Server Enumeration utility (dblocate) enhancements   The Server Enumeration utility (dblocate) now supports several new options to search for databases:

See Server Enumeration utility (dblocate).

Service utility (dbsvc) enhancements   The Service utility (dbsvc) supports the DBLTM service type, which allows you to manage services for the Log Transfer Manager, and the dbsln service type, which lets you manage services for the Listener utility.

The Service utility also supports the -o option, which allows you to log output from the utility to a file. See Service utility (dbsvc) for Windows and Service utility (dbsvc) for Linux.

New SQL Anywhere Broadcast Repeater utility (dbns10)   The SQL Anywhere Broadcast Repeater utility allows SQL Anywhere clients to find SQL Anywhere database servers on other subnets and through firewalls, where UDP broadcasts do not normally reach, without using the HOST parameter or LDAP. See Broadcast Repeater utility (dbns11).

New report submission utility (dbsupport)   The new Support utility (dbsupport) provides the ability to submit error reports and statistics, the ability to query for updates (availability of EBFs), and the ability to check if previously submitted problems have been fixed. See Support utility (dbsupport).

Unload utility (dbunload) enhancements   The following dbunload enhancements have been made:

The following new options have been added:

See Unload utility (dbunload).

Validation utility (dbvalid)   A new database validation option, -d, has been added. This option performs a database validation that includes checksum validation, checks for orphaned table pages and BLOBs, as well as structural checks. Data is not checked. See Validation utility (dbvalid).