Synergy/DE Compatibility
Select your Synergy/DE version in the drop-down below to view its compatibility information.
This page includes requirements and other important information about Synergy/DE 9.1. Refer to the Quick Migration Guide (PDF) for more information about upgrading.
- New! Requirements for the Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET
- New Product Configuration Keys if upgrading from a version prior to 9
- Installation Requirements
- Runtime Compatibility (Compilation Requirements)
- Server Compatibilities
- RDBMS Support (with SQL Connection)
- Third-Party Products
Requirements for the Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET (for Synergy/DE 9.1.5)
Product key
The “ODBC_9” configuration key will configure both the Synergy/DE Data Provider for .NET and xfODBC. For example, a 10-user ODBC_9 license will support 10 xfODBC users or 10 Data Provider users or 5 users of each and so on.
Product requirements
- Synergy/DE 9.1.5b or higher (Connectivity Series is required for development and Connectivity Series or xfODBC Client is required for deployment.)
- Visual Studio 2008 (for development) with Service Pack 1 and with the hotfix documented in Microsoft KB article 954740
- “ODBC-enabled” Synergy DBMS data (Data set up for ODBC access with Synergy/DE xfODBC)
- .NET Framework version 3.5 with Service Pack 1 (or a higher service pack) and with the hotfix documented in Microsoft KB article 959209
Platforms
One of the following:
- Windows Vista with Service Pack 1 or higher
- Windows XP with Service Pack 3
- Windows 2003 with Service Pack 2
- Windows Server 2008 (Service Pack 2 and any subsequent service packs for Windows 2008 are supported but not required.)
New Product Configuration Keys
If you are upgrading from a Synergy/DE version prior to Synergy/DE 9.1.3, Professional Series Workbench will require a new SlickEdit key. If you have not already received your new key, please contact our Customer Service team.
If you are upgrading to version 9 for the first time, you will need new product configuration keys. To obtain keys for a license that includes Workbench, e-mail your registration information to Customer Service.
To get your registration information,
-- On Windows, using the Synergy Configuration program,
- From the Licensing tab, click the Print Registration Information button.
- Complete the fields and click the Print button.
- Save it to a file, and send us that file.
-- On Unix, send the “register.lm” file located in the synergyde/lm directory.
(See the Installation Configuration Guide for additional information about obtaining this registration information.)
To obtain keys for a license that does not include Workbench, you can send your registration information as instructed above, or you can use our Online Services. If your licenses are on Annual License Maintenance (ALM), simply contact our Customer Service team to get set up. If you do not have ALM, please contact your Synergy/DE account manager to order your upgrade.
Installation Requirements
- (Windows) The installation can upgrade Synergy/DE version 7.3.1 or higher versions.
- (Windows) The installations now enforce operating system minimums. The following Service Pack levels are enforced:
Windows 2000 SP 4
Windows XP SP 2
Windows 2003 SP 1
Runtime Compatibility (Compilation Requirements)
We recommend that you rebuild your Synergy applications with version 9.1.5 to benefit from all the new features and fixes. If you choose not to rebuild, your application should still work fine with the 9.1.5 runtime, with the following exceptions:
- If your Synergy applications were built with Synergy/DE 5.7.9 or an earlier version, you must recompile them.
- If your Synergy applications use DDLIB (an executable library that contains routines that access the Synergy Repository), and they are built with a Synergy/DE version prior to 7.1, you must recompile them.
- In order to debug your code with Synergy/DE 9, you will need to recompile.
Server Compatibilities
We recommend that you update all Synergy/DE products to version 9.1.5. If you choose to update your server(s) only, refer to this chart for the minimum client versions supported with Synergy/DE 9.1.5 servers:
(Note: For all Synergy/DE client/server products, your server version must be equal to or higher than your client version.)
| The following Synergy/DE 9.1 servers... | …will support these Synergy/DE client versions | Notes... |
| xfServer | Synergy/DE 6.1 and higher | |
| xfServerPlus | xfNetLink 7.1 and higher | With xfNetLink Java and xfNetLink COM 7.1 clients, there is no structure support, and you will be limited to passing only 20 parameters. |
| SQL OpenNet | xfODBC or SQL Connection 9.1 | |
| License Manager | (Windows) Synergy/DE 6.3 and higher (UNIX) Synergy/DE 9.1 license files and Synergy/DE 9.1 clients |
RDBMS Support (with SQL Connection)
SQL Connection 9.1 supports the following databases:
- Oracle
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- Synergy DBMS
See Third-Party Products for specific version information.
In addition, fee-based support from our Professional Services Group is available for the following databases:
- IBM DB/2 (for Synergy/DE 9.1.1)
- Informix
- Sybase
- RDB
- Other ODBC-compliant
Third-Party Products
Synergy/DE interfaces or integrates with a number of third-party products. Synergex supports these interfaces and integration points but does not support the third-party products themselves. We strongly encourage you to maintain support contracts for any third-party products that are important to your solutions. The chart below specifies the versions of these third-party products that we expect to work successfully with Synergy/DE.
An asterisk* in the version column indicates that the latest Synergy/DE version requires a new minimum version of the corresponding product.
Synergy/DE 9.1.1:
| For these third-party products that Synergy/DE interfaces or integrates with... | Synergy/DE 9.1.1 will support these versions... | Notes |
| Acrobat Reader | *7, 8 | For viewing the Online Manuals. For best results, use the most recent version of Reader available for your platform. We will distribute version 7 on the Online Manuals CD. |
| Crystal Reports | *9, 10, 11 | For use with xfODBC. |
| Delphi | 4 or higher | ActiveX controls created with Delphi must use Delphi version 4 or higher. |
| HTTP | 1.0 | For use with the HTTP document transport API. |
| IIS | 5, 6, 7 | For use with xfNetLink COM and xfNetLink .NET. |
| InstallShield for Windows Installer | *12 or higher | |
| Internet Explorer | *6.n, 7.n | For accessing Synergy logic from xfNetLink (.NET, Java, COM). |
| Java Virtual Machine (JVM) | 1.3 | For Java class wrappers. xfNetLink Java requires a JVM that is compatible with Sun Microsystems’ JDK version 1.3 or above. |
| JavaServer Pages | 1.1 | For Java class wrappers. |
| MDAC | 2.7 SP1, 2.8 | For use with xfODBC. 2.7 SP1 is the minimum version supported. If customer has a version prior to this, we install 2.8. |
| Microsoft .NET Framework | 1.1, 2.0 | If you are using Framework 2.0, you must use Synergy/DE 8.3 (or higher). 64-bit Synergy/DE requires 2.0 or higher. |
| Microsoft Jet 4 | SP8 | For use with xfODBC. |
| OpenSSL | 0.9.7, 0.9.8 | Used by HTTP API. 0.9.8e required on Windows Vista. |
| Oracle | *9.x, 10.x | For use with SQL Connection. |
| Servlets | 2.2 | For Java class wrappers. |
| SlickEdit | *11 | For use with Professional Series Workbench. |
| Spread® Grid Control (Farpoint®) | 7 | |
| SQL Server (Microsoft) | 2000, 2005 | For use with SQL Connection. If you are using SQL Server 2005, you must use Synergy/DE 8.3 (or higher). |
| Synergy DBMS (Synergex) | 5.7.9+ | |
| Terminal emulator | At least limited vt100 terminal compatibility | For use with the remote debugging feature. |
| Visual Studio | 2003, 2005, Orcas | For use with xfNetLink .NET and xfServerPlus. If you are using Visual Studio 2005, you must use Synergy/DE 8.3 (or higher). |
| VMWare | All | For using Synergy/DE products on virtual machines. |
| Windows Installer | 3.1 | Used with InstallShield for Windows Installer. |
| Xerces C++ XML Parser | 2.5.0 | Used by the XML API. Xerces is built into gentlb. |
Synergy/DE 9.1.3:
| For these third-party products that Synergy/DE interfaces or integrates with... | Synergy/DE 9.1.3 is expected to work with these versions... | Notes |
| Adobe Reader | 7, 8 | For viewing the Online Manuals. For best results, use the most recent version of Reader available for your platform. We distribute version 8 on the Online Manuals CD. |
| Crystal Reports | 9, 10, 11, 12 | For use with xfODBC. |
| Delphi | 4 and higher | ActiveX controls created with Delphi must use Delphi version 4 and higher. |
| HTTP | 1.0 | For use with the HTTP document transport API. |
| Java Servlets | 2.2 and higher | For xfNetLink Java. |
| Java Virtual Machine (JVM) | 1.2 through 1.6 | For xfNetLink Java, which requires a JVM that is compatible with Sun Microsystems’ JDK version 1.3 or above. |
| JavaServer Pages | 1.1 and higher | For use with xfNetLink Java. |
| MDAC | 2.7 SP1, 2.8 | For use with xfODBC. 2.7 SP1 is the minimum version supported. If machine has a version prior to this, we install 2.8. |
| Microsoft .NET Framework | *2.0 | For use with xfNetLink .NET. |
| Microsoft Jet 4 | SP8 | For use with xfODBC. |
| Microsoft Visual Studio | *2005, 2008 | For use with xfNetLink .NET. |
| OpenSSL | 0.9.7, 0.9.8 | Used by HTTP API. 0.9.8e required on Windows Vista. |
| Oracle | 9.x, 10.x | For use with SQL Connection. |
| Spread® Grid Control (Farpoint®) | 7 | For use with UI Toolkit's ActiveX lists. |
| SQL Server (Microsoft) | 2000, 2005, 2008 | For use with SQL Connection. To use SQL Server 2008, use 9.1.3's VXT12_SQLNATIVE driver. |
| Synergy DBMS (Synergex) | 5.7.9+ |
Synergy/DE 9.1.5:
| For these third-party products that Synergy/DE interfaces or integrates with... | Synergy/DE 9.1.5 is expected to work with these versions... | Notes |
| Adobe Reader | 7, 8 | For viewing the Online Manuals. For best results, use the most recent version of Reader available for your platform. We distribute version 8 on the Online Manuals CD. |
| Crystal Reports | 9, 10, 11, 12 | For use with xfODBC. |
| Delphi | 4 and higher | ActiveX controls created with Delphi must use Delphi version 4 and higher. |
| HP SSL | 1.3 | Based on OpenSSL 0.9.7e. OpenVMS only. |
| HTTP | 1.0 | For use with the HTTP document transport API. |
| Internet Explorer | 6.n, 7.n | For accessing Synergy logic from xfNetLink (.NET, Java, COM). |
| Java Servlets | 2.2 and higher | For xfNetLink Java. |
| Java Virtual Machine (JVM) | 1.2 through 1.6 | For xfNetLink Java, which requires a JVM that is compatible with Sun Microsystems’ JDK version 1.3 or above. |
| JavaServer Pages | 1.1 and higher | For use with xfNetLink Java. |
| MDAC | 2.7 SP1, 2.8 | For use with xfODBC. 2.7 SP1 is the minimum version supported. If machine has a version prior to this, we install 2.8. |
| Microsoft .NET Framework | *2.0 | For use with xfNetLink .NET. |
| Microsoft Jet 4 | SP8 | For use with xfODBC. |
| Microsoft Visual Studio | *2005, 2008 | For use with xfNetLink .NET. |
| OpenSSL | 0.9.7, 0.9.8 | Used by HTTP API. 0.9.8e required on Windows Vista. |
| Oracle | 9.x, 10.x | For use with SQL Connection. |
| Spread® Grid Control (Farpoint®) | 7 | For use with UI Toolkit's ActiveX lists. |
| SQL Server (Microsoft) | 2000, 2005, 2008 | For use with SQL Connection. To use SQL Server 2008, use 9.1.3's VXT12_SQLNATIVE driver. |
| Synergy DBMS (Synergex) | 5.7.9+ |