JDBC Type 4 Driver Programmer's Reference for SQL/MX Release 3.2.1

8 Type 4 Driver Compliance
• “Compliance Overview” (page 73)
• “Unsupported Features” (page 73)
• “Deviations” (page 75)
• “HP Extensions” (page 76)
◦ “Internationalization of Messages” (page 76)
• “Conformance of DatabaseMetaData Methods' Handling of Null Parameters” (page 77)
• “Type 4 Driver Conformance to SQL Data Types” (page 77)
◦ “JDBC Data Types” (page 77)
• “Floating-Point Support” (page 79)
• “JDBC Type 4 Driver Features” (page 79)
• “Unsupported NonStop SQL Features” (page 79)
“Unsupported SQL/MX Features” (page 79)◦
◦ “Unsupported SQL/MP Features” (page 80)
• “Other Unsupported Features” (page 80)
• “Restrictions” (page 80)
Compliance Overview
The Type 4 driver conforms where applicable to the Oracle JDBC 3.0 API specification. However,
this driver differs from the JDBC standard in some ways. This subsection describes the JDBC methods
that are not supported, the methods and features that deviate from the specification, and features
that are HP extensions to the JDBC standard. JDBC features that conform to the specification are
not described in this subsection.
In addition, this chapter lists features of NonStop SQL/MX and SQL/MP that are not supported
by the NonStop JDBC type 4 Driver, other unsupported features, and restrictions.
Unsupported Features
The following methods in the java.sql package throw an SQLException with the message
"Unsupported feature - method-name":
CommentsMethod
The particular CallableStatement
method is not supported.
CallableStatement.getArray(int parameterIndex)
CallableStatement.getArray(StringparameterName)
CallableStatement.getBlob(int parameterIndex)
CallableStatement.getBlob(StringparameterName)
CallableStatement.getClob(int parameterIndex)
CallableStatement.getClob(StringparameterName)
CallableStatement.getObject(int parameterIndex, Map map)
CallableStatement.getObject(String parameterName, Map map)
CallableStatement.getRef(int parameterIndex)
CallableStatement.getRef(StringparameterName)
CallableStatement.getURL(int parameterIndex)
CallableStatement.getURL(String parameterName)
CallableStatement.executeBatch()
The particular Connection methods
are not supported.
Connection.releaseSavepoint(Savepoint savepoint)
Connection.rollback(Savepoint savepoint)
Connection.setSavepoint()
Connection.setSavepoint(String name)
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