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  • From: "Gene Dymarskiy" <gagarin AT i-dep.com>
  • To: "FreeTDS Development Group" <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [freetds] Sybase ASA 7, unixODBC problem
  • Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 18:13:14 -0600

Great idea! there is got to be a way to pass this value form odbc.ini
Like "databasename" field or such. please let me know if any luck. Thank
you for looking into this
-----Original Message-----
From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
lsunley AT mb.sympatico.ca
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2004 5:00 PM
To: FreeTDS Development Group
Subject: Re: [freetds] Sybase ASA 7, unixODBC problem

In <20041106185815.3a3cd0c1.jklowden AT schemamania.org>, on 11/06/04
at 06:58 PM, "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT schemamania.org> said:

>lsunley AT mb.sympatico.ca wrote:
>> >The issue, we know: the ODBC driver does not set the servername
>> >field of the login packet before connecting. It should call
>> >tds_set_server() when it discovers the servername, although it's not

>> >clear what "server name" means when freetds.conf isn't used.

>> Is the servername supposed to be the resolved host name of the
server?

>No. The "servername" in this case is a field passed to the server in
>the login packet. It's the dataserver name, the [servername] in the
>freetds.conf file, the name the client application uses to open a
>connection.

>Most servers ignore it, afaik. ASA requires it, because it uses it as
>the name of the database to "start".

>The ct-lib and db-lib libraries fill the field correctly; the ODBC
>driver stuffs in 'SYBASE' instead. That be the problem.

>Hope that's clear. :-)

Yes,

I'll take a quick look at the ODBC code, it should be really simple to
put in an additional key in the odbc.ini for that value and pass it
along to the right spot.

Lorne

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