Connecting to Sybase PDO ODBC

In Scriptcase, we have the following drivers available for connecting to Sybase: __Sybase PDO DBLIB, Sybase PDO ODBC and Sybase.__If you are using your own, pre-configured environment, the Sybase extension must be enabled manually in PHP.

If you have an automatic installation of Scriptcase, the Sybase PDO DBLIB and Sybase PDO ODBC drivers are already enabled.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this documentation, please check the architecture of your PHP. For the drivers to be enabled correctly, files must be downloaded according to the architecture used.

• In your Scriptcase, there is the file info.php, access it by the URL: http://127.0.0.1:8092/scriptcase/info.php, where you will find the information about the architecture in the phpinfo().

• x86 architecture = 32-bit
• x64 architecture = 64 bit

Listed below are the files needed to get the drivers enabled:

You will need to go to www.sap.com and download the 32-bit or 64-bit Sybase ODBC Driver. The architecture of the installer must match the architecture of the operating system.

Setting up Sybase ODBC

NOTE:__If you have a data source configured, proceed to Scriptcase Connection Creation.

1 - Go to Control Panel > Systems and Security > Administrative Tools > ODBC Data Sources(32 or 64 bit), according to your PHP architecture.

2 - Select the System Data Source tab, and click Add.

3 - Choose Sybase driver: * Adaptive Server Enterprise

4 - After selecting the driver you will see the screen below, in the “General” tab you will need to inform the connection data to the bank:

• Data Source Name: Name of the data source that will be used when creating the connection in Scriptcase
• Server Name: IP of the server where the Sybase database is
• Server Port: Enter the connection port to your database. The default used is 5002
• Database Name: Name of your database
• Logon ID: Your database user’s name
• Service Name: Your database service name
• BackEnd Type: Your database type

5 - After entering the above data, click Advanced > Client Charset > Others, to enter the charset of your database.

6 - After making the above settings click OK to finish creating the ODBC data source. The ODBC Data Source Administrator screen appears, where you can view the data source you created.

Creating a Connection in Scriptcase

Here is how to create a connection in your Scriptcase project using the Sybase database.

1 - Access any project from your Scriptcase.

2 - Click on the New connection icon to create a connection.

or go to the Database > New Connection menu.

After that a new page will appear with all the database connections.

3 - Select the Sybase connection.

Connection

Enter the parameters for connecting to your Sybase database as follows:

• Connection Name: Define the name of your new connection. By default, Scriptcase adds the prefix conn along with the database name.

• DBMS Driver: Select the Sybase Driver used to connect. In this example, we use the Sybase PDO ODBC Driver.

• Server/Host (Name or IP): Enter the DataSource Name created for this database.
  • E.g. sybase__test

• Port: Inform the number port for your database server.

• Schema: Inform the Scheme of specific tables created for the use of the informed user.
  • This item is optional if you do not have a schema configured in your database.

• Username: Inform the user to authenticate the connection to your Sybase database.

• Password: Enter the password to complete the authentication process.

• Database Name: Type your database name to connect with him. Or, if you want to choose one different database, click on the button List Database to show all databases availabes for your user.
  • Create Database: Clicking on this button, you will create a new Sybase database for use.
• Test Connection: Click on this button to get a response from the Scriptcase request to find out if the parameters entered are correct.

Filter

Accessing this tab, you can configure which Database items will be displayed on the connection, depending or not on the owner.

Show

It allows the Sybase connection to see tables, views, system tables and procedures depending on the items selected by the user. By default, the items Tables and Views are already selected by Scriptcase.

• Tables: By selecting this option, the tables in your database will be displayed.
  • By default, Scriptcase enables this option.
    
    
• Views: By selecting this option, the views of your database will be displayed.
  • By default, Scriptcase enables this option.
    
    

• System Tables: By selecting this option, the system tables of your database will be displayed.

• Procedures: By selecting this option, the procedures of your database will be displayed.

Searches

Allows you to define which tables and owners are displayed.

• Tables: You can define in this option which tables will be displayed. The configuration can contain a PREFIX% or name of the tables to display.
  • By default, Scriptcase leaves this option empty.
  • E.g.
    
    

  

• Owner: Inform the user who sees the tables entered for display.
  • The user must be in capital letters as in the example above.
    
    
• Show: Choose whether tables for the informed owner are displayed.

NOTE: By using table filtering, you eliminate unnecessary tables for your project and improves the performance of your database connection.

Advanced

In this tab, you have access to specific settings for the connection. The changes made in this session impact the data display and application performance.

• client_encoding: Select the encoding used in your database. In the example above, we use the client_encoding UTF-8.

• Decimal Separator: Select the type of separator for decimal records, between comma and period.
  • By default, the period . is selected as a separator.
    
    
• Persistent Connection: Define whether the connections will be closed after the execution of your scripts in Scriptcase applications.
  • By default, Scriptcase disables this option.
    
    
• Use the schema before table name: Define whether the database schema is displayed before the table names.

  • By default, Scriptcase enables this option.

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Doubts or Connection Problems?

Contact our Support Team in case of connection problems or questions regarding this database.