on 2014 Nov 06 4:09 AM
I've been asked to install an ancient version of SQLAnyhere - ASA 8 - to bring an old DB back to life.
I had to install on an old version of Ubuntu (8.04) and it mostly seems to have worked.
However, some of the tools don't.
In particular, dbisql complains "The Java2 runtime environment could be found but not loaded. The application could not be started."
I believe that the ASA8 install installed some old version of Java, but that obviously wasn't quite enough. I even tried a manual install of Java6 - and that made no difference.
Any suggestions on how to get this old bird off the ground?
Try installing a later version of SQL Anywhere, and using the dbisql from that version. Multiple different versions of SQL Anywhere can coexist on the same machine, and I have found the same problem you have with earlier versions... later versions of dbisql seem to work fine with older databases, with SQL Anywhere 5.5 being the only one that's on "the other side" of a legacy barrier.
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I'd try the C-based DBISQLC, it does not require Java and should be enough to apply SQL scripts and ad-hoc queries. (I still use it with v12.0.1...)
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