With 12.0.0.2601 dbsrv12 the default setting for the -gd option does NOT enable the ODBC Administrator - Login tab - Action: "Start and connect to a database on another computer" to work even when the user is connecting via DBA.

This contradicts the Help http://dcx.sybase.com/index.html#1200en/dbadmin/gd-database-dbengine.html which says "The default setting is all for the personal database server, and DBA for the network database server."

The explicit dbsrv12 -gd DBA option does not seem to help either.

Tests were performed using Sybase Central 12 to connect to a running database on the server, and then trying to start a second database on that server.

The "start a second database" connections failed with "Request to start/stop database denied" when -gd default and -gd DBA were used, but worked with -gd all.

Note that when -gd all is specified, no "first connection to the server from the same application" is required, and this warning from the Help topic above does NOT apply: "When this option is set to DBA, the client application must already have a connection to the database server to start or stop a database. Providing a DBA user ID and password on a new connection is not enough."

I.e., when -gd all is specified, the ODBC Administrator Test Connection button works, as does a single connection from Sybase Central 12.

===== Client DSN for connecting to a running database ddd12b.db on server computer...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ddd12_on_Envy_connect_to_ddd12b]
"Driver"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\SQLANY~3\\Bin32\\dbodbc12.dll"
"UID"="dba"
"PWD"="sql"
"DatabaseName"="ddd12b"
"ServerName"="ddd12_on_Envy"
"Integrated"="NO"
"Host"="192.168.1.101:2638"

===== Client DSN for starting and connecting to a second database ddd12c.db on server computer...

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ODBC\ODBC.INI\ddd12_on_Envy_start_ddd12c]
"Driver"="C:\\PROGRA~1\\SQLANY~3\\Bin32\\dbodbc12.dll"
"UID"="dba"
"PWD"="sql"
"DatabaseName"="ddd12c"
"DatabaseFile"="ddd12c.db"
"ServerName"="ddd12_on_Envy"
"Integrated"="NO"
"Encryption"="NONE"
"Host"="192.168.1.101:2638"