Neoview ODBC Drivers Manual (R2.5)

UCS2 Translation
The datasource attribute, UCS2Translation, controls whether the driver translates application
data when inserting or retrieving data from UCS2 columns if the ISO mapping is ISO88591 and
the client locale is the default.
• If UCS2Translation is specified and set to 0, the driver does not translate application data.
Use this setting to preserve the behavior of earlier versions of the drivers for UNIX.
• If UCS2Translation is absent or has a value other than 0, translation occurs.
If the ISO mapping is not ISO88591, this attribute has no meaning: the driver always translates
data between the client locale and the server ISO mapping.
Passwords and Server Certificates
As of release 2.5, Neoview ODBC Drivers have these changes to support new security, password,
and server certificate features:
• Connection attributes for specifying the location of the server certificate used to encrypt
passwords when connecting to a specific Neoview platform from the workstation
• Connection attribute for specifying the role during logon
• Password handling changes
• A new DLL in the installation package, to support password encryption
Password encryption features are available on these platforms:
• IBM AIX®
• IBM AIX® 64-bit
• Solaris for SPARC®
• Solaris for SPARC® 64-bit
• x86 Linux
• x86-64 Linux
• IA64 Linux
• HP-UX PA-RISC
• HP-UX PA-RISC 64-bit
• HP-UX IA-64
• HP-UX IA-64 64-bit
This section discusses:
• “Password Length” (page 34)
• “Password Expiration” (page 35)
• “Password Encryption” (page 35)
• “Secure Login and Multiple-Role support for Neoview ODBC Drivers” (page 36)
• “Server Certificates” (page 36)
Password Handling Changes for Release 2.5
As of release 2.5, you can change your password only from NCI and HPDM or, in the case of
database users, on the external directory server platform. The ODBC driver no longer supports
password changes at login time or from applications other than NCI and HPDM. However, if
password expiration warnings are configured as described in the Neoview User Management and
Security Administration Guide, a message is displayed at login if the password will soon expire
(on a date specified in the warning) or if the password has expired but the database user has not
yet exhausted a grace count configured on the LDAP server.
Password Length
The maximum password length allowed to connect to the Neoview database is 128 characters.
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