Environment Variable

Use

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	-

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.