Technical Documentation : Connectors : Adding a Sybase IQ Connection
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Adding a Sybase IQ Connection
Prerequisites
  • In order to establish a connection with Sybase IQ, a user with sufficient permissions is required.
  • Zeenea traffic flows towards Sybase IQ must be open.
Important: The Sybase IQ driver is not delivered with the connector with scanner version 34 and later. Download the Sybase IQ driver related to your Sybase IQ instance and move it into the /lib-ext folder of your scanner. You will find the driver into sources provided by the editor on their website: http://www.sybase.com/products/allproductsa-z/softwaredeveloperkit/jconnect

Note: You can find a link to the configuration template in Zeenea Connector Downloads.
Supported Versions
This connector was successfully tested with version 16.0.
Installing the Plugin
The SybaseIQ connector has been moved to the JDBC plugin. It can be downloaded here: Zeenea Connector Downloads.
For more information on how to install a plugin, please refer to the following article: Installing and Configuring Connectors as a Plugin.
Declaring the Connection
Creating and configuring connectors is done through a dedicated configuration file located in the /connections folder of the relevant scanner.
In order to establish a connection with SybaseIQ, specifying the following parameters in the dedicated file is required:
Parameter
Expected value
name
The name that will be displayed to catalog users for this connection.
code
The unique identifier of the connection on the Zeenea platform. Once registered on the platform, this code must not be modified or the connection will be considered as new and the old one removed from the scanner.
connector_id
The type of connector to be used for the connection. Here, the value must be SybaseIQ and this value must not be modified.
connection.hostname
Database address
connection.database
Database name
connection.port
Port used by the database
connection.username
Username
connection.password
User password
Note: A template of the configuration file is available in this repository.
User Permissions
The user must be able to read objects from tables:
  • sysusers
  • sysobjects
  • sysremark
Data Extraction
In order to extract data from Sybase IQ, the connector runs requests on the following tables:
  • sysusers
  • sysobjects
  • sysremark
Collected Metadata
Inventory
The inventory collects the list of all data sources that the user can access.
Datasets
Here, a dataset is a table.
  • Name
  • Source Description
  • Technical Data:
    • Schema: source schema
    • Table: table name
Field
Dataset field.
  • Name
  • Source Description
  • Type
  • Can be null: Based on field settings
  • Multivalued: Not supported. Default value FALSE.
  • Primary Key: Based on the "Primary Key" field attribute
  • Technical Data:
    • Technical Name
    • Native type: Field native type
Object Identification Keys
A key is associated with each item of the catalog. When the object comes from an external system, the key is built and provided by the connector.
Object
Identification Key
Description
Dataset
code/schema/dataset name
- code: Unique identifier of the connection noted in the configuration file
- schema: Dataset schema
- dataset name
Field
code/schema/dataset name/field name
- code: Unique identifier of the connection noted in the configuration file
- schema: Dataset schema
- dataset name
- field name
Last modified date: 11/28/2025