SA 9.0.2 with Windows 7

[David MacDonald]

Hi all,
I can see from http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1002288 that Sybase does not
support Windows7 with SA 9.0.2 at this stage.

My questions are:
1) Is Sybase working on supporting SA 9.0.2 with Windows 7 or have they
decided not to?
- If no, is it because 9.0.2 is nearing End Of Life?

2) Are there any recorded issues with running SA 9.0.2 on Windows 7 - apart
from the display issue when running SCJVIEW (turn off "Use visual styles on
windows buttons")?

- NOTE: For the issue with Display Styles, you can also use these
Registry settings:
---------------------------x86
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\Sybase Central\4.3\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\Adaptive Server
Anywhere\9.0\DBISQL\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\Adaptive Server
Anywhere\9.0\DBConsole\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sybase\Adaptive Server
Anywhere\9.0\DBMLMon\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

---------------------------x64
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432node\Sybase\Sybase
Central\4.3\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432node\Sybase\Adaptive Server
Anywhere\9.0\DBISQL\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432node\Sybase\Adaptive Server
Anywhere\9.0\DBConsole\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432node\Sybase\Adaptive Server
Anywhere\9.0\DBMLMon\VMArgs]
"-Dswing.noxp"="1"

Thanks

David

[Jeff Albion [Sybase iAnywhere]]

Hi David,

David MacDonald wrote:
> My questions are:
> 1) Is Sybase working on supporting SA 9.0.2 with Windows 7 or have they
> decided not to?
> - If no, is it because 9.0.2 is nearing End Of Life?

Engineering is still evaluating 9.0.2 on Windows 7. There have been no
announcements made at this time.

See these other threads for other topics of discussion regarding Windows
7 and 9.0.2:
http://groups.google.com/group/sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general/browse_thread/thread/f197790bb5588981/16572dafd9afe32c
http://groups.google.com/group/sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general/browse_thread/thread/e6b61c15918d1797/f08bdd627c1acf36
http://groups.google.com/group/sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general/browse_thread/thread/209da26583a740c4/c09030b70ea5c006
http://groups.google.com/group/sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general/browse_thread/thread/99122142586b6f03/e2d9816b9f7f08ef
http://groups.google.com/group/sybase.public.sqlanywhere.general/browse_thread/thread/a4782743956d4fb1/e4410bd1fa1e3aba

If Product Management were to decide not to support it, yes, it would be
because it is nearing its end-of-life status.

> 2) Are there any recorded issues with running SA 9.0.2 on Windows 7 - apart
> from the display issue when running SCJVIEW (turn off "Use visual styles on
> windows buttons")?

There have been mixed reports about IPV6 requests causing hangs on
start-up with the newer Windows OSes, but we have not been able to
identify a reproducible in technical support to illustrate the issue, so
this issue is currently based on speculation and hearsay at this point.
Others users have reported no problems with technically running the engine.

Regards,

--
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[Graeme Perrow [Sybase iAnywhere]]

Jeff Albion [Sybase iAnywhere] wrote:
>> 2) Are there any recorded issues with running SA 9.0.2 on Windows 7 -
>> apart from the display issue when running SCJVIEW (turn off "Use
>> visual styles on windows buttons")?
>
> There have been mixed reports about IPV6 requests causing hangs on
> start-up with the newer Windows OSes, but we have not been able to
> identify a reproducible in technical support to illustrate the issue, so
> this issue is currently based on speculation and hearsay at this point.
> Others users have reported no problems with technically running the engine.

Note that SA 9.0.2 does not support IPv6. These IPv6 issues may apply to
10.0 and up.

--
Graeme Perrow
Senior Software Developer
gperrow _at_ ianywhere _dot_ com
Sybase iAnywhere Engineering

SQL Anywhere Developer Community
http://www.sybase.com/developer/library/sql-anywhere-techcorner
SQL Anywhere Blog Center
http://www.sybase.com/sqlanyblogs

[David MacDonald]

Hi Jeff and Graham,
Thank you both for you quick replies.

Cheers

David MacDonald

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