Neoview ODBC Drivers Manual (R2.5)

API Functions..................................................................................................................................29
Data Types.......................................................................................................................................29
Restricted ODBC API Functions...........................................................................................................29
SQLBindParameter..........................................................................................................................29
2 HP Neoview ODBC Drivers Overview for UNIX......................................................31
Driver Components..............................................................................................................................31
Drivers Supported.................................................................................................................................32
Data Sources..........................................................................................................................................32
Default Data Source.........................................................................................................................32
Client Data Sources..........................................................................................................................33
Setting the Client Character Set.................................................................................................33
Connections...........................................................................................................................................33
Connecting a Client to a Data Source..............................................................................................33
Associating a Connection with a WMS Service...............................................................................33
Object Naming and Mapping...............................................................................................................33
ANSI Name Type.............................................................................................................................33
UCS2 Translation..................................................................................................................................34
Passwords and Server Certificates........................................................................................................34
Password Handling Changes for Release 2.5..................................................................................34
Password Length.............................................................................................................................34
Password Expiration........................................................................................................................35
Password Encryption.......................................................................................................................35
Passwords for Platform-level Users................................................................................................35
Passwords for Database (LDAP) Users...........................................................................................35
Secure Login and Multiple-Role support for Neoview ODBC Drivers..........................................36
Logging On as a Database User.................................................................................................36
Logging on as a Platform User...................................................................................................36
Server Certificates............................................................................................................................36
Specifying the Certificate File Location .....................................................................................37
Expired Certificates....................................................................................................................38
Release Considerations and Restrictions..............................................................................................38
Pthreads and the HP-UX ODBC Driver................................................................................................39
Traces.....................................................................................................................................................39
Using the Driver With a Third Party Driver Manager..........................................................................39
Neoview Platform Specific Extensions and Attributes........................................................................40
Handling Larger Row Counts ........................................................................................................40
Specifying a Job ID or Session Name..............................................................................................40
Example......................................................................................................................................41
Specifying an Application Name.....................................................................................................41
Example......................................................................................................................................42
Network I/O Compression..............................................................................................................42
INFOSTATS Command ........................................................................................................................43
Example of INFOSTATS..................................................................................................................44
Unsupported ODBC API Functions and Data Types...........................................................................44
API Functions..................................................................................................................................44
Data Types.......................................................................................................................................44
Restricted ODBC API Functions......................................................................................................45
SQLBindParameter.....................................................................................................................45
3 HP Neoview Unicode Driver for Windows...............................................................47
Drivers Supported.................................................................................................................................47
Unicode APIs........................................................................................................................................47
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