Starting SAP Adaptive Server and Associated Servers

Start SAP Adaptive Servers and associated servers automatically as services.

  1. Disable automatic start-up of SAP Adaptive Server and associated servers. To do this, select Services from the Control Panel, and change the Startup property of the servers to Disabled.
  2. Save the current values of SYBASE, SYBASE_OCS, INCLUDE, and PATH in a text file.
  3. Complete the SDK for SAP ASE and SAP Open Server installation as documented the installation sections.
  4. In the Control Panel, select System. Open the Advanced tab and click Environment Variables. Change the values of the environment variables SYBASE, SYBASE_OCS, INCLUDE, and PATH to the values saved in the text file (see Step 2).
    Option Description
    Starting the servers Automatically Start the servers automatically as Services. Click Services in the Control Panel and change the Startup property of the servers to Automatic.
    Starting the servers Manually
    • Open a command prompt and change to the pre-15.7 ASE SYBASE directory.

    • Execute the SYBASE.BAT file.

    • Start each server by using:
      startserver -f RUNfile

      where RUNfile is the batch file associated with each server.