Connection parameters are passed to the interface library as a connection string. This string consists of a set of parameters, separated by semicolons.
In general, the connection string built up by an application and passed to the interface library does not correspond directly to the way a user enters the information. Instead, a user may fill in a dialog box, or the application may read connection information from an initialization file.
Certain Sybase IQ utilities accept a connection string as the -c command-line option and pass the connection string on to the interface library without change. For example, the following is a typical Collation utility (dbcollat) command line for Windows systems. It should be entered all on one line.
dbcollat -c "uid=DBA;pwd=sql;dbn=iqdemo" c:\temp\iqdemo.col
DBISQL processes
the connection string internally. It does not simply pass on the
connection parameters to the interface library. Do not use Interactive
SQL to test connection strings from a command prompt.
