mixed load is the only official support mode
- starting in ASE 15.0.2 – support for OLTP and DSS modes
I had never heard of this prior to coming to this year’s TeamSybase Annual Meeting. 
Category: Annual Meeting
The Performance & Tuning Guide for version 15 of ASE has been broken up into five manuals. They will be released to SyBooks as they become available from the technical writers. The estimated first book release is summer of this year! 
The replication capabilities of MySQL are relatively primitive when compared to the more mature Replication Server from Sybase. Sybase expects to support full featured replication using Sybase’s Replication Server in late 2008 with MySQL. This would be an add-on (RepServer Options) to the standard Replication Server product. Keep in mind that this is a tentative time frame and it can arrive sooner or later than 2008.
There are a number of enhancements that are scheduled to be Sybase’s Workspace version 2.0. Keep in mind that these features are tentative and may be kept or dropped when Workspace 2.0 is released. I received permission from Sybase’s Project Management to mention this information.
- Support for Eclipse’s update service for the Sybase components of Workspace
- Enterprise Manager entirely replaces Database Manager
- embedded PowerDesigner 12.5
- Eclipse 3.3
- Possible Linux and/or Mac OSX version
- Network Installer
- Windows Vista support
Database Development
- DDL generation of multiple objects including permissions
- Visual SQL enhancements (adhoc queries)
- intelligent sql statement templates (stored procedures)
- RTMS MQ Series support
- wizard & schema support for IQ specific indexes and query plans
- multiple object wizard for drops & execution on RepServer
- enhanced integration for RepConnector Manager
- Adoption of DTP framework
Services Development
- Development of logical services
- declarative composite services
- support for ws-security API
- Publish & subscribe to JMS Topics
- Build properties editor usability enhancements
Data Federation
- better integration with ws-security framework
- connection profile to Data Federation
- awareness in services editor mobile tooling, sql editor
- access to data grid as a soap service
Web App Development
- JSF page validation support
- integration with IBM’s faces-config
- EAServer 6 support
Framework
- eclipse 3.3 support
- help system keyword index
- composite cheat sheets
- new welcome framework
- enhanced packaging and development
- enhanced enterprise explorer
- support access to ldap directories, including connection profile storage
- capability support
- greater configuration of desktop
I’m returning to California for the annual TeamSybase meeting this weekend. Not only do we get additional training, but we are able to grab the ears, figuratively, of engineering and project management. If any one has anything they would like me to bring up with Sybase’s Engineering, Project Management or brass, please reply to this post or email me.
