We are planning to upgrade ASA 7 database to ASA 10 64 bit. Both
server have to work on same PC with Vista 64 ( 8 GB RAM ). Now, ASA 7
work on Standard Win2003 server.

Any problem ? Reason for post is ASA 7 32 bit edition, and Vista 64
bit !

Bofcilo,

ASA 7 is not supported on Windows Vista: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1023009

SA 10.0.1 is supported on Windows Vista: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1002288

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Joshua Savill
Sybase Inc. - Product Manager


Bofcilo wrote:

OK, we know that. But, it is official state. What about in real world,
i mean, is it possible to run ASA7 on Vista ?

I doubt ASA 7.0.4 will work on Windows Vista. ASA 7.0.4 was EOL'd on March 31st, 2005. Vista RTM'd
on November 8th, 2006 and provided immense changes to the OS.

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Joshua Savill
Sybase Inc. - Product Manager


Bofcilo wrote:

probably does not.

however, FYI, I could start the dbeng6 eng on a asademo6 in vista 64 PC

and actually sometimes I had run some old PB app on some assa 6 database
before for small database. they seemed OK ( I did not even install the asa 6
I just transfer the settings from xp to vista. and coped the program files
in the same location

I won't do this a large production database directly without detail
planning.

If I had to I would do a test with a copy of everything for asa 7 on Vista
but then it would still be unsupported.
.. Window 7 may be a better target then vista on a powerful PC. the worst
scenario, You run the asa 7 in xp compatilibility mode which I know it
worked. even then I would use that as part of migration plan to later
version of Sql Anywhere on a supported platform

I did migration from asa6 to 8 long time ago and it was fairly painless and
was not a very long process than 9 last year

good luck.

"Josh Savill [Sybase]" <no_spam_jsavill_no_spam (AT) sybase (DOT) com> wrote

Hi Bofcilo,

Josh's reply is the "official position" of Product Management. It's
likely that you can "technically" run ASA7, but there are numerous
caveats with doing this that we cannot provide workarounds for:

1. The default samples possibly will not work. This is because Vista
introduced the rule where you cannot write user-files to the "Program
Files" directory.

2. There will likely be elevation privileges required for many
operations - you'll have to test to find these cases. The UAC will
probably cause "surprise" issues to spring up. We provide an explicit
utility "dbelevate" to assist with this in newer versions.

3. System DSNs have been known to "not work" for some users, based on
missing privileges. Again, you should test for this limitation.

4. "Interact with Desktop" for services has been deprecated. Doing a
search on the newsgroup for other recent threads will explain this
limitation further.

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This is probably not an exhaustive list - as Josh suggested, it's
probably better to start migrating to SQL Anywhere 10/11 where we
provide explicit support:

http://dcx.sybase.com/index.php#html...s-3754171.html

Regards,

Bofcilo wrote:
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