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Administrator Password

This is the password for the administrator user entered when the ODBC-ODBC Bridge was installed. Without this password you cannot change the configurable parameters.

MaxBookMarkSize

This attribute specifies the size of the largest bookmark the OOB can handle (it defaults to 32). ODBC 2.0 uses fixed length bookmarks of 4 bytes. In ODBC 3.0 bookmarks are all variable in size. If you find an ODBC driver that needs more than 32 bytes for a bookmark please let us know, otherwise the default should be fine.

Port

The port where the OOB server is listening for incoming OOB client connections.

HTTPPort

This option specifies the port on which the OOB Server will listen for HTTP requests. The default is port 8890 but it may be any port not in use on your machine. If the Flags configurable option bitmask has the second bit set (value 0x2) then the OOB Server starts listening on the specified port for HTTP requests in addition to acting in its normal role serving the OOB Client. You may use the URL http://machine_name:HTTPPort where machine_name is the name (or IP address) of the machine running the OOB Server and HTTPPort is the port number to communicate with the OOB Server from your browser. It can show statistics, DSNs and the current values of configurable parameters.

Timeout

This defines the inactivity timeout in seconds (the default is 7200 - 2 hours). The OOB server starts a new thread (or process) for each client that connects. If there has been no communication in timeout seconds the thread/process exits. This ensures clients which fail to closedown properly do not cause increasing resource usage on the server.

Path

This is the installation path of the ODBC-ODBC Bridge. You cannot change this via your browser.

RetryCount

This is the number of times the server will attempt to create a thread/process to handle a connection or the number of times the the server will attempt to obtain a license slot for a new connection.

RetryPause

This is the time in seconds between each retry attempt (see above).

Logging

This is a bitmask telling the OOB Server what sorts of event to log in the log file. This should only be used as directed by Easysoft support and will slow the OOB down considerably if set. You may specify the number as decimal or hexadecimal (e.g. 2047 or 0x7ff).

LogDir

This option specifies the directory where log files are created (see Logging). If defaults to c:\temp in Windows and /tmp in UNIX.

Flags

This is a bitmask of operational flags. The bitmasks are:

  1. 0x1 Reserved for Easysoft use (default is clear, i.e. not set)
  2. 0x2 Start listening for HTTP connections when the server starts (default is set, 0x2)
  3. 0x4 OOB Server starts a new process for each incoming connection instead of a new thread (default is clear, ie. not set and therefore the Server starts a new thread per connection). You might set this if you had an ODBC driver which you know is not thread-safe.
  4. 0x8 If set prevents the OOB client from automatically starting block-fetch-mode for read-only metadata result-sets. (default is clear, i.e. automatic metadata block-fetch-mode enabled).
You add these values together to produce the Flags value. The default Flags value is 0x2 or Windows and 0x6 for UNIX. You can specify the value as decimal or hexadecimal (e.g. 6 or 0x6).

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