Neoview ODBC Drivers Manual (R2.4)

About This Document
This manual describes how to configure HP Neoview ODBC drivers for Microsoft Windows and
the HP Neoview drivers for UNIX (HP-UX, Linux, IBM AIX®, and Sun Solaris for SPARC®).
The drivers enable applications developed for the Microsoft Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
application programming interface (API) to access the HP Neoview database. Installation
instructions are included in the README for the HP Neoview ODBC Driver for Windows and
README for the HP Neoview ODBC Drivers for UNIX.
Intended Audience
This document is intended for anyone who configures, manages, or troubleshoots HP ODBC
software and connectivity, for ODBC application programmers who write 32-bit or 64-bit
applications to access an HP Neoview database, and other end users or application programmers
who use HP Neoview ODBC drivers to access a Neoview database.
New and Changed Information in This Edition
The following information is new or changed in this edition of this manual:
• Added information about ODBC .NET support.
• Added a subsection that shows supported drivers
• Added information about using the SQL_ATTR_SESSIONNAME connection attribute
• Added information about using the SQL_ATTR_APPLNAME connection attribute
• Added information about associating a connection with a WMS service
• Added information about the SQL_ATTR_ROWCOUNT64_PTR attribute
• Added information about the SQL_ATTR_WARNING environment variable
• Added a subsection on the SQLCancel() function
• Added a subsection on UCS2 Translation
• Added information about extended numeric precision columns
• Added and changed driver error messages
• Deleted instructions for installing the driver. That information is now contained in the
README for the HP Neoview ODBC Driver for Windows and README for the HP Neoview
ODBC Drivers for UNIX, both available at docs.hp.com
Document Organization
This document is organized as follows:
• Chapter 1: “ HP Neoview ODBC Driver Overview for Windows” (page 13), provides an
overview of the HP Neoview ODBC driver on Windows.
• Chapter 2: “ HP Neoview ODBC Drivers Overview for UNIX” (page 25), provides an
overview of the HP Neoview ODBC drivers on Linux, HP-UX, IBM AIX®, and Sun Solaris.
• Chapter 3: “Accessing Neoview SQL Data From Microsoft ODBC .NET Data Provider”
(page 35) describes how to access data stored in HP Neoview applications using the ODBC
.NET data provider to wrap the ODBC APIs.
• Chapter 4: “ Configuring Client Data Sources” (page 39), describes how to configure data
sources on Windows, Linux, HP-UX, IBM AIX®, and Sun Solaris.
• Chapter 5: “ HP Neoview ODBC Drivers Conformance” (page 45), contains tables that
describe HP Neoview ODBC drivers conformance to standard ODBC API functions and
SQL conformance levels
• Chapter 6: “HP Neoview ODBC Drivers Messages” (page 57), describes HP Neoview ODBC
drivers error codes.
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