I'm also having trouble getting access to ADS products. I have downloaded the trial version which has the new components so I can test them. I'm not sure what will happen in 30 days.
We also did not have a "contract" with sybase, and I have no idea what is entailed with being a partner with SAP or how to become one. We used to call our contact at advantage, give him a credit card number, and we received the license information we needed to sell a system.
I also have found no way to report an error in an ADS component in Delphi XE7. I was told by a Technical Support Engineer at Embarcadero Technologies, ADS is writing to Delphi's memory space, causing it to think a license violation took place. It then dumps out to a web page stating I need a license for Delphi (which is licensed). This error occurs ONLY after accessing the Advantage Data Architect from a tAdsQuery component. It is very nasty since it does not give any warning and does not save any work that is in progress. This error is in both Version 11 and 12. I can avoid it by not using this "feature." It can be duplicated, but sometimes it is after hours of work, other times it happens right away.
I very much miss the old extended systems team…