Hi,
We use Sybase OpenClient/OpenServer in our suite of products, with our
own proprietry database built on top of OpenServer, and OpenClient
used for all client communications.

We have a problem in that we use OpenClient 11.x in our old but still
supported release, and the latest OpenClient 12.5 in our latest
release.

On HP-UX 11, we have problems in a threaded environment with the 11.x
libraries, which I guess is because they don't use full native
threading (DCE based,) that we don't have with the latest 12.x
libraries. What we plan, therefore, is to do a limited patch to our
old release with 12.x libraries, organised thus:

11.x - $SYBASE/{lib,charsets,config}
12.x - $SYBASE/$SYBASE_OCS/{lib,charsets,config}

So, when clients have SYBASE_OCS set, they use the newer 12.5
libraries, which fixes our threading problems.

The problem is the locales directory, which is not modified by the
SYBASE_OCS, and thus must be shared between 11.x and 12.5. We've found
that 12.x won't work with the 11.x locales, but 11.x does appear to
work with the 12.x locales (though that is only tested with the
default "C" locale.)

Question is, is this safe? Are there any potential pitfalls to using
the 12.x locales with 11.x clients, or will OpenClient just ignore
12.x settings it does not recognise?

Thanks in advance,
Christian

Hiya,

Why don't you create softlinks to the 11.x files from the 12.x $SYBASE.
That way if at all you have to apply a patch there will be no
inconsistent file versions all over the place.

Cheers
Willy

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