Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Version 6.0.0 ============================================= Release Notes ============= This file contains release notes for Sybase Adaptive Server Anywhere Version 6.0.0. Contents -------- These release notes contain the following: 1. Known Limitations and Problems 2. Documentation Corrections 1. Known Limitations and Problems --------------------------------- The following is a list of known limitations and problems with the current software: 1.1 PowerBuilder and InfoMaker initialization file PowerBuilder and InfoMaker users should add an Adaptive Server Anywhere section to their pbodb60.ini file. For information on this, see the section "Upgrade notes for PowerBuilder and InfoMaker users" 1.2 Installing InfoMaker 6.5 System Requirements ------------------- - 486 PC or higher - 16 MB RAM (24 recommended) - 45 MB hard drive space, depending on configuration - CD ROM drive - VGA monitor - Windows 95 or Windows NT 3.51 or higher for development - Windows 95, Windows NT, or Window 3.x for deployment Installing on NT 4.0 -------------------- You must have Administrator privileges to fully install this product on NT 4.0. 1.3 Windows 3.x and Java The Windows 3.x database server supports Java in the database. However, the Windows 8.3 file name limitation makes .java and .class file names invalid on this operating system, and so only the asademo.jar file is installed for Windows 3.x machines. In order to install the demo examples, you shold run jdemow.sql rather than jdemo.sql. 1.4 Windows 3.x Win32s version It is documented that the Windows 3.x personal database server requires version 1.30 or later of the Win32s subsystem. If you attempt to run the database server with an earlier version of Win32s, it does not work. 1.5 Creating ODBC File data sources Creating an ODBC File data source from the ODBC Administrator does not work. You must edit File data sources (which has standard INI file format) by hand. 1.6 SQL Remote and Java objects To extract a database that contains Jave objects for SQL Remote, use the dbxtract command line utility instead of Sybase Central. You should ensure that the database server has a cache of 8 Mb when carrying out this task. This is a guideline for running any application against a Java-enabled database. You should use the internal reload option (the default) when carrying out this extraction. 1.7 Calling Java methods from Open Client or jConnect connections If you connect to a database server using Open Client or Sybase jConnect, you cannot execute the following statements: call JavaClass.method() exec JavaClass.method() where JavaClass and method are any class and method. You can use the following in the case that the method returns a value: select JavaClass.method() 2. Documentation corrections ---------------------------- The following corrections are known significant errors in the printed documentation. Some of these errors may be fixed in the online documentation. The page numbers refer to the User's Guide (UG) or the Reference Manual (RM) unless otherwise noted. 2.1 Line numbers in Java debugger tutorial UG, page 492: the line number in step 2 should be 284. In step 3, the line number should be 292. 2.2 Windows 3.x and Java UG, page 424: For Windows 3.x, to install the Java sample classes, you should run jdemow.sql rather than jdemo.sql. The Windows 3.x 8.3 file name limitations prohibit installation of the .java and .class files. The file jdemow.sql installs asademo.jar only, not JDBCExamples.class. The external Java examples cannot be run on Windows 3.x, as the files are not installed. 2.3 Creating custom collations UG, page 274: The command line in step 4 of the instructions for creating a custom collation should read as follows: dbcollat -d mycol.col custmap.sql mycol.sql The additional file name in this command is required whenever you execute dbcollat with the -d parameter. 2.4 How Java objects are stored UG, page 449: The description states that the values of public fields are stored. In fact, all non-transient and non-static fields are serialized.