Category: Definition

Pluggable Component Interface (PCI)

The PCI or Pluggable Component Interface is an internal interface of ASE. This interface will be installed during server installation or when upgrading your current server version. A sub-component of PCI is the PCI Bridge which has the task to execute the work between ASE and the Java Virtual Machine. To do this, the PCI Bridge provides - among others - an own process, memory, synchronisation and configuration management, support for data access services and signal and exception handling, as well as routing of error messages into the ASE error log.

Under normal circumstances, the standard configuration of the PCI Bridge is sufficient, but can be adapted in coordination with Sybase Technical Support. The system procedure sp_pciconfig can be used for this task.