I contacted SAP. They said this error happened because our maintenance agreement had expired. So to use a test environment for our SQl Server migration, we have to pay.
The only free alternative is to create scripts to extract the schema, data, functions and other brick a brac and convert it to sql. server. Then pray the revised sql server version works with the application front end.
If we upgrade sql anywhere to the current supported versions, Microsoft has a free script to migrate sql anywhere to sql server. That should do most of the grunt work.
The sensible way to do this is get support and create a test environment.
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