General tab

The General tab includes general information about the DBMS in which the Optim™ Directory is stored. This information includes the DBMS type, version, and code page, and whether the Optim Directory data is kept in Unicode or multi-byte format.

Example of the General tab on the Optim Directory Editor, described as follows.

DBMS Type and Version

The type and version of the DBMS for the database in which the Optim Directory is stored.

Code Page

You can select the code page for the specified DBMS, however Optim can generally ascertain the correct code page from the database. The supported code pages include the following pages:

Code Page Description
437 US English
850 International Multilingual
860 Portuguese
863 Canadian, French
865 Nordic
1250 Eastern European
1251 Cyrillic
1252 US/Western European ANSI or Latin 1 (ISO 8859-1)
1253 Greek
1254 Turkish
1255 Hebrew
1256 Arabic
1257 Baltic Rim
blank Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT

Data is Kept in Unicode Format

A check indicates that Optim Directory data is kept in Unicode format. This setting cannot be changed and Data is Kept in Unicode Format is displayed only when you are connected to an Optim Directory in a DBMS for which Unicode is supported.

Data is Kept in Multi-byte Format

A check indicates that Optim Directory data is kept in multi-byte format. This setting cannot be changed and Data is Kept in Multi-byte Format is displayed only when you are connected to an Optim Directory in a DBMS for which multi-byte is supported.



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