Neoview ODBC Drivers Manual (R2.2 SP1)

Table of Contents
About This Document.........................................................................................................9
Intended Audience.................................................................................................................................9
New and Changed Information in This Edition.....................................................................................9
Document Organization.........................................................................................................................9
Notation Conventions.............................................................................................................................9
General Syntax Notation...................................................................................................................9
Related Documentation........................................................................................................................11
Neoview Customer Library.............................................................................................................11
Publishing History................................................................................................................................12
HP Encourages Your Comments..........................................................................................................13
1 HP Neoview ODBC Driver Overview for Windows.................................................15
Driver Components..............................................................................................................................15
Data Sources..........................................................................................................................................15
Default Data Source.........................................................................................................................15
Client Data Sources..........................................................................................................................16
Connections...........................................................................................................................................16
Connecting a Client to a Data Source..............................................................................................16
Connection Pooling.........................................................................................................................16
Object Naming and Mapping...............................................................................................................17
ANSI Name Type.............................................................................................................................17
Password Expiration.............................................................................................................................18
Release Considerations and Restrictions..............................................................................................18
Traces.....................................................................................................................................................19
INFOSTATS Command ........................................................................................................................19
Example of INFOSTATS..................................................................................................................20
Unsupported ODBC API Functions and Data Types...........................................................................21
API Functions..................................................................................................................................21
Data Types.......................................................................................................................................21
Restricted ODBC API Functions......................................................................................................21
SQLBindParameter.....................................................................................................................21
SQLPutData................................................................................................................................21
2 HP Neoview ODBC Drivers Overview for Linux, HP-UX, IBM AIX®, and Sun
Solaris...............................................................................................................................23
Driver Components..............................................................................................................................23
Data Sources..........................................................................................................................................24
Default Data Source.........................................................................................................................24
Client Data Sources..........................................................................................................................24
Connections...........................................................................................................................................24
Connecting a Client to a Data Source..............................................................................................24
Object Naming and Mapping...............................................................................................................24
ANSI Name Type.............................................................................................................................24
Password Expiration........................................................................................................................25
Release Considerations and Restrictions..............................................................................................25
Traces.....................................................................................................................................................26
Using the Driver With a Third Party Driver Manager..........................................................................26
INFOSTATS Command ........................................................................................................................26
Example of INFOSTATS..................................................................................................................27
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