ODBC and JDBC Guide

Contents 4
Accessing a FileMaker database file from a Windows application 21
Specifying ODBC client driver properties for a FileMaker DSN (Windows) 21
Verifying access via ODBC (Windows) 21
Accessing a FileMaker database file from a macOS application 22
Specifying ODBC client driver properties for a FileMaker DSN (macOS) 22
Verifying access via ODBC (macOS) 22
Chapter 5
Installing FileMaker JDBC client drivers 23
Software requirements 23
Networking requirements 23
JDBC client access to FileMaker Cloud 23
JDBC client driver installation 23
Using the JDBC client driver 24
Chapter 6
Using JDBC to share FileMaker data 25
About JDBC 25
Using the JDBC client driver 25
About the JDBC client driver 25
Using a JDBC URL to connect to your database 26
Specifying driver properties in the URL subname 28
Specifying a socket timeout value 28
Solutions with multiple FileMaker database files 29
Verifying access via JDBC 29
Chapter 7
Reference information 30
ODBC Catalog functions 30
JDBC DatabaseMetaData methods 30
Mapping FileMaker fields to ODBC data types 30
Mapping FileMaker fields to JDBC data types 31
Data types in 64-bit applications 31
ODBC and JDBC error messages 31
ODBC error messages 31
JDBC error messages 32
Index 33