ASA Database Administration Guide
  Connecting to a Database
    Introduction to connections

Saving connection parameters in ODBC data sources

Many client applications, including application development systems, use the ODBC interface to access Adaptive Server Anywhere. When connecting to the database, ODBC applications typically use ODBC data sources. An ODBC data source is a set of connection parameters, stored in the registry or in a file.

For more information on ODBC data sources, see Working with ODBC data sources.

For Adaptive Server Anywhere, ODBC data sources can be used not only by ODBC applications on Windows, but also by other applications:

• Adaptive Server Anywhere client applications on UNIX can use ODBC data sources, as well as those on Windows operating systems. On UNIX, the data source is stored as a file.

• Adaptive Server Anywhere client applications using the OLE DB or embedded SQL interfaces can use ODBC data sources, as well as ODBC applications.

• Interactive SQL and Sybase Central can use ODBC data sources.