Environment variables contain information on a user's software environment.
Name |
Definition |
Description |
Restrictions |
---|---|---|---|
PATH |
On Windows: <installation_path>\bin\;<installation_path>\pgm;<global_program_path>\bin:<global_program_path>\pgm;%PATH% On Unix: <installation_path>\bin:<global_program_path>/bin:$PATH * See Glossary, Directory |
Path to the executable SAP MaxDB files |
- |
LD_LIBRARY_PATH |
<installation_path>\lib or <installation_path>\lib\lib64 |
Used by the SAP MaxDB ODBC driver and SQLDBC interface |
On Unix and Linux only |
SQLOPT |
- |
Can be set by a database application to define options for connecting to the database |
- |
* PATH settings must be defined in the user environment and not in the system environment any more. If system PATH settings for SAP MaxDB exist after an installation or upgrade to a version ≥ 7.8, delete them.