Neoview ODBC Drivers Manual (R2.3)

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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.............................................................................................................12

Publishing History................................................................................................................................13

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 Length...................................................................................................................................18

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 UNIX Drivers Overview.........................................................................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 Length.............................................................................................................................24

Password Expiration........................................................................................................................24

Release Considerations and Restrictions..............................................................................................25

Pthreads and the HP-UX ODBC Driver................................................................................................25

Traces.....................................................................................................................................................26

Using the Driver With a Third Party Driver Manager..........................................................................26

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