ODBC Driver Manager   Microsoft provides an ODBC Driver Manager for Windows operating systems. SQL Anywhere includes an ODBC Driver Manager for Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X. There is no ODBC Driver Manager for Windows Mobile. ODBC applications can run without a driver manager but, on platforms for which an ODBC driver manager is available, this is not recommended.

Connection information   The client application must have access to the information needed to connect to the server. This information is typically included in an ODBC data source.

ODBC driver   The SQL Anywhere ODBC driver must be installed.