Step 3: Registering the administration tools with Windows

You must set the following registry key for the administration tools. The names of the registry values are case sensitive.

  • In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\SQL Anywhere\12.0

    • Location   The fully-qualified path to the root of the installation folder (C:\Program Files\SQL Anywhere 12 for example) containing the Sybase Central files.

You may set the following registry keys for the administration tools. The registry keys are optional and only required to be set if the OS language is different from the language that the administration tools will use. The names of the registry keys are case sensitive.

  • In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\Sybase Central\6.1.0

    • Language   The two-letter code for the language used by Sybase Central. This must be one of the following: EN, DE, FR, JA, or ZH for English, German, French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, respectively.

  • In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\SQL Anywhere\12.0

    • Language   The two-letter code for the language used by SQL Anywhere and the other administration tools. This must be one of the following: EN, DE, FR, JA, or ZH for English, German, French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese, respectively.

On 64-bit Windows, the equivalent registry entries for 32-bit software are under SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Sybase.

Paths should not end in a backslash.

Your installer can encapsulate all this information by creating a .reg file and then executing it. Using our example installation folder of c:\sa12, the following is a sample .reg file: 

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\Sybase Central\6.1.0]
"Language"="FR"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\SQL Anywhere\12.0]
"Location"="c:\\sa12"
"Language"="FR"

Backslashes in file paths must be escaped by another backslash in a .reg file.

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