How to use Sybase Central on Mac Intel machines

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Several developers at ServoyWorld asked when Sybase Central would be supported for Mac Intel machines. The Mac Intel platform will not be officially supported until SQL Anywhere v10 for the Mac is released, which is targeted for the end of the year.

Unofficially, you CAN use Sybase Central (and Interactive SQL) on Mac Intel platforms today. You simply need to make sure that Sybase Central uses the jConnect driver to connect to the database server. The default driver is the iAnywhere JDBC driver, which uses native code that hasn’t been ported to the Mac Intel platform yet. The jConnect driver is pure Java so it doesn’t have this problem.

Here’s how to do it…

  1. A Connect dialog opens when you choose to connect to a database.

  2. Select the “Advanced” tab in the Connect dialog.

  3. Choose the “jConnect 5” radio button in this tab pane.

  4. Ensure that you specify the server name and database name in the Database tab pane, as well as the userid and password in the Identification tab pane.

That’s it! You should be good to go.

I have attached two screen shots showing the Advanced and Database tab panes.

David

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david_jonker:
Several developers at ServoyWorld asked when Sybase Central would be supported for Mac Intel machines. The Mac Intel platform will not be officially supported until SQL Anywhere v10 for the Mac is released, which is targeted for the end of the year.

Unofficially, you CAN use Sybase Central (and Interactive SQL) on Mac Intel platforms today.

Works fine. Thanks, David

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Thanks for the tip, David.

Sincerely,

Ben

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Some developers have noticed an error message:

“library dbput9_r and dbmlput9_r could not be loaded.
This may be because the provider is being reloaded
(restart the viewer) or because it could not be found.”

Those libraries are not used on the Mac Intel platform,
so the message can be ignored. It’s a bug that will be
fixed in version 10.

David

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I just want to remark that it is very meaningful, at least to this particular developer, to have the participation of Sybase/iAnywhere on these Servoy forums. Thank you.

kazar