Hi,
Is ADS.ini required on a workstation (Win-10) where the ADS is installed on 
the server (Server-2008)?
If yes, where the INI should be saved?
Many thanks,
-Itai

On 12/8/2017 9:19 PM, Itai Ben-Artzi wrote:
> Hi,
> Is ADS.ini required on a workstation (Win-10) where the ADS is installed 
> on the server (Server-2008)?
> If yes, where the INI should be saved?
> Many thanks,
> -Itai
Hi Itai,

The following is extracted from the 11.1 ADS help file
(section: ads.ini File Support)...

All Advantage clients based on the Advantage Client Engine can use an 
initialization file, ads.ini, to override specific default settings such 
as the Advantage server type. The Advantage JDBC Driver and the 
Advantage CA-Clipper RDDs do not use the ads.ini file.

The Advantage TDataSet Descendant supports database aliases that are 
defined in the ads.ini files. See the topic, Database Aliases and the 
ads.ini File in the Advantage TDataSet Descendant Help documentation 
(ADE.HLP or ade.htm) for more information. (Note that each of the 
Advantage products and their corresponding Help files are installed 
separately.)

Windows

In order for the ads.ini file to be used, it must be located in the 
application directory, the Windows directory, the Windows System 
directory, or the client's search path.

In addition, if an environment variable exists with the name 
adsini_path, that path will be used to locate the ads.ini file. This can 
be helpful when you do not want to modify the application’s search path, 
but still need the ads.ini file to exist in a directory multiple users 
have rights to (for example on Windows Vista installations). An 
application can often set the environment variable at run-time before 
calling any Advantage functions, which avoids the need to set a 
per-workstation environment variable.

The help file came with my ADS 11.1 installation package.

Regards... Jonathan