The DataServer for ODBC can run in a variety of configurations. Depending on its configuration, it is either a single OpenEdge executable or a set of OpenEdge executables that you can distribute across operating systems. There are two general types of configurations—local and remote—with variations on each type:
Local DataServer — All of the DataServer software components, the schema holder, the ODBC software, and your data-source client software run on one machine.
Remote DataServer — The DataServer software components run on different machines. Typically, the OpenEdge client component runs on one machine, while the OpenEdge server component runs on another machine called the host machine. Note that the ODBC software and any client software required by the data-source vendor run on the same machine as the DataServer software modules. In the remote DataServer configuration, this is the host machine. The host machine and the machine on which the client runs communicate through OpenEdge networking (TCP/IP). A remote configuration exists within the framework of a distributed application, whereby DataServers are spawned on the host machine using the OpenEdge ProBroker executable or broker in the Progress Explorer administration framework.
Local DataServer — All of the DataServer software components, the schema holder, the ODBC software, and your data-source client software run on one machine.
