SDK components

SDK 15.0 is a set of libraries and utilities that you can use to develop client applications and includes the following components:

• Open Client version 15.0 – an API, a set of libraries used to develop and deploy C-language applications that access Adaptive Server data. Included on the installation medium are:

  • Drivers for integrating Client-Library and Open Server applications with directory and security services

  • Sample programs for Client-Library and DB-Library™

• Open Client Embedded SQL™/C version 15.0 – the precompiler that allows you to embed Transact-SQL® statements into C-language applications. Also included:

  • Sample programs for Embedded SQL/C

• Open Client Embedded SQL/COBOL version 15.0 – the precompiler that allows you to embed Transact-SQL statements into COBOL-language applications. Also included:

  • Sample programs for Embedded SQL/COBOL

• Sybase Adaptive Server ODBC Driver by Sybase, version 15.0.

  Adaptive Server ODBC Driver is only available on the Linux x86 (32-bit) platform. It is not available on other platforms, including Linux on POWER (32-bit and 64-bit).

• Language modules – provide system messages and datetime formats to help you localize your applications. Default installation includes only the U.S. English language module and the following character sets supported by the U.S. English language module:

  • IBM code page 437 (cp437)

  • IBM code page 850 (cp850)

  • ISO 8859_1 (iso_1)

  • ISO 8859_15 (iso_15: Latin9 - western European)

  • Unicode UTF-8 encoding (utf8)

  • Macintosh Roman (mac)

  • Hewlett-Packard Roman 8 and Roman 9 (roman8 and roman9)

  You can purchase additional language modules for these languages through Sybase:

  • Chinese

  • French

  • German

  • Japanese

  • Korean

  • Polish

  • Portuguese

  • Spanish

  • Thai

• jConnect for JDBC 6.05 – the Java implementation of the Java JDBC standard, which provides Java developers with native database access in multitier and heterogeneous environments. For jConnect hardware and software requirements and installation instructions, refer to the Installation Guide for jConnect for JDBC.

• Extended Architecture (XA) Interface Library for Adaptive Server Distributed Data Manager. Also included are sample programs for XA.

  XA is available on all platforms except Linux x86 (32-bit) and Linux on POWER (32-bit and 64-bit).