Data Assurance Agent Configuration Properties

Use the instance.cfg configuration file to set the DA agent system properties.

The instance.cfg file for DA agent is found in the $SYBASE/DA-15_5/agent/instance directory.

where instance is the name of your DA agent.

Note: Restart DA agent for any changes to take effect.
DA Agent Instance Properties
Property Name Description and Value
da.agent.colHashPrefix
Specifies the prefix for each column_hash column alias in the SQL select statements. The prefix is followed by the name of the column. For example:
select … hashbytes(‘md5’, mycol, using
      msb) as sy_col_hash_mycol  

The prefix must be 1 – 100 characters in length and contain only letters, digits, and underscores.

Default: sy_col_hash_

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.agent.maxDbHashArgs

Specifies the maximum number of arguments DA supplies to the database hash function (SAP Adaptive Server hashbytes).

If the number of comparison columns with the row_hash option exceeds this number, the comparison columns are divided into groups, and multiple row hashes are generated and compared.

Valid values are:
  • Minimum: 2
  • Maximum: 450

Default: 100

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.agent.rowHashPrefix
Specifies the prefix DA uses for each row_hash column alias in SQL select statements. The prefix is followed by the row_hash number, starting with 1. For example:
select … hashbytes(…)as sy_row_hash_1

The prefix must be 1 – 100 characters in length and contain only letters, digits, and underscores.

Default: sy_row_hash_

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.dts.port

Specifies the port number for the remote DA agents to accept data transfer stream (DTS) connections from DA server instances.

Valid values are:
  • Minimum: 1025

  • Maximum: 65535

Default: none (value required)

da.jdbc.asa

Specifies the JDBC driver class name for SAP Adaptive Server Anywhere (ASA).

Default: com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybDriver

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.jdbc.ase

Specifies the JDBC driver class name for an SAP Adaptive Server database.

Default: com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybDriver

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.jdbc.hanadb

Specifies the JDBC driver class name for the SAP HANA database.

Default: com.sap.db.jdbc.Driver

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.jdbc.iq

Specifies the JDBC driver class name for an SAP IQ database.

Configure this to ianywhere.ml.jdbcodbc.jdbc3.IDriver to use the native SQL Anywhere® ODBC driver.

Default: com.sybase.jdbc4.jdbc.SybDriver

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.jdbc.oracle

Specifies the JDBC driver class name for an Oracle database.

Default: oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver

This property applies to the DA server's local agent and remote DA agents.

da.sec.dts.enableRemoteAccess

Determine whether the data transfer stream (DTS) listener can accept connections from remote clients.

Valid values are true or false.

Default: false

Related reference
Data Assurance Server Configuration Properties