The following figure shows the remote DataServer configuration.
Figure 5. The remote DataServer for ODBC
In the remote configuration, the OpenEdge client and schema holder run on a client machine and the OpenEdge server components and any ODBC data-source client software run on a remote server machine. Depending on the ODBC and data-source client software implementation, the actual target database may be local or remote to the machine where the OpenEdge DataServer for ODBC executes. If the data-source client software supplies modules that manage networked database communications, a remote database configuration is possible. The DataServer cares only about the data-source definition on its machine. Remote database access is transparent to the DataServer.
In remote DataServer configurations, OpenEdge handles the communication between the client and the server. The client and server processes that make up the DataServer adapt to a variety of network configurations.
Figure 5shows a remote DataServer configuration. The following table lists the supported configurations. It contains possible client-server combinations and networking options.
