In these steps you create an ODBC data source that is used by a Windows-based
Management Console to access the database you created in Sybase.
- From the Windows start menu, select . The ODBC
Data Source Administrator dialog appears.
- On the System DSN tab, click Add.
A list of drivers appears.
- Select Sybase from the list of drivers,
then click Finish. In the ODBC
Setup dialog box that appears, enter the following information:
- Data Source Name: the name for this data source, Build Forge
Sybase suggested.
- Description: description for this data source.
- Server Name: host name of the host where the Sybase
database is installed.
- Database Name: database name you created above.
- Connection Tab: set Charset to utf8.
Click OK to close ODBC Setup, then OK to
close ODBC Data Source Administrator. The data source
is created.
Make a note of the following information. It is requested by the installation
program when you install the Management Console.
- Data source name: as you assigned when creating the ODBC data source
- Data source type: Sybase
- User name: user name you created for the database (for example, build)
- Password: password for the user name (for example, build)