Searching for available servers message

Troubleshooting: Searching for available servers message

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Problem Description

      When the code reaches sessionManager, BeginSession, a message comes as follows: Searching for available servers and waits for about 10-20 seconds. This always happens in the QuickBooks POS version.

      What is it doing at that point??

Solutions

      The message above means: waiting for the response from your local network (or wide network, depending on your subnet mask). This procedure uses Sybase API for discovering Sybase servers in the network, and in my understanding, it sends a broadcast first and then waits for responses.

      To eliminate the wait, you should specify the database name (in which case it'll look on the local machine only) or the database name and server name if the data is on another machine. Then you'll connect much faster. See the manual for the format of the connection string.