Creating a database profile – PB Docs 126

To create a database profile for a database interface:

1. Click the Database Profile button in the
   PowerBar.

   The Database Profiles dialog box displays, listing your installed
   database interfaces. To see a list of database profiles defined
   for a particular interface, click the plus sign to the left of the
   interface name or double–click the interface name to expand
   the list.

2. Highlight an interface name and click New.

   The Database Profile Setup dialog box for the selected interface
   displays. For example, if you select the SYC interface, the Database
   Profile Setup – Adaptive Server Enterprise dialog box displays.

   Client software and interface must be installed

   To display the Database Profile Setup dialog box for your
   interface, the required client software and native database interface
   must be properly installed and configured. For specific instructions
   for your database interface, see the chapter on using the interface.

3. On the Connection tab page, type the profile name
   and supply values for any other basic parameters your interface
   requires to connect.

   For information about the basic connection
   parameters for your interface and the values you should supply,
   click Help.

   About the DBMS identifier

   You do not need to specify the DBMS identifier
   in a database profile. When you create a new profile for any installed
   database interface, PowerBuilder generates the correct DBMS connection
   syntax for you.

4. (Optional) On the other tab pages, supply values
   for any additional connection options (DBParm parameters and SQLCA properties) to take advantage
   of DBMS-specific features that your interface supports.

   For information about the additional connection
   parameters for your interface and the values you should supply,
   click Help.

5. (Optional) Click the Preview tab if you want to
   see the PowerScript connection syntax that PowerBuilder generates
   for each selected option.

   You can copy the PowerScript connection syntax from the Preview
   tab directly into a PowerBuilder application script.

   For instructions on using the Preview tab
   to help you connect in a PowerBuilder application, see the section
   on using Transaction objects in Application Techniques.

6. Click OK to save your changes and close the Database
   Profile Setup dialog box. (To save your changes on a particular
   tab page without closing the dialog box, click
   Apply.)

   The Database Profiles dialog box displays, with the new profile
   name highlighted under the appropriate interface. The database profile
   values are saved in the system registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSAPPowerBuilder12.6
   DatabaseProfilesPowerBuilder.

   You can look at the registry entry or export the profile as
   described in “Importing and exporting
   database profiles” to see the settings you made.
   The NewLogic parameter is set to True by default. This setting specifies
   that the password is encrypted using Unicode encoding.