Support and certification

Visit the following web pages for the latest support and certification information.

Changes Since 6.0.0 GA

  • Enhancements
    • The driver has been enhanced to comply with FIPS standards for data encryption. As part of this enhancement, the driver was tested with FIPS 140-3 enabled using a Red Hat OpenJDK 21 on a Red Hat Universal Base Image 9 instance. See FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) for details.
  • Changed Behavior
    • The connection property SpyAttributes has been updated to exclude the attribute load=classname, which was previously used to load the driver specified by the given class name. See SpyAttributes for details.

Highlights of 6.0.0 Release

  • Enhancements
    • The driver supports SQL read-write access to Apache Impala data stores. See Supported SQL statements and extensions for details.

    • The driver supports JDBC core functions. For details, refer to JDBC support in the Progress DataDirect for JDBC Drivers Reference.

    • The driver has been enhanced to support the Array data type through data type inference. See Data Types and getTypeInfo for details.
    • The driver has been enhanced to provide proxy support. See Connection URL examples and Connection property descriptions for more information.
    • The driver supports Kerberos authentication. See Kerberos authentication for details.
    • The driver has been enhanced to support Impersonation with Kerberos authentication using the new ImpersonateUser property. See for ImpersonateUser details.
    • The driver has been enhanced to support LDAP authentication with user ID and password. See User ID/password authentication for details.
    • The driver supports No authentication, which allows you to connect without any authentication credentials. See No authentication for details.
    • Interactive SQL is now installed with the product. Interactive SQL is a command-line interface that supports connecting your driver to a data source, executing SQL statements and retrieving results in a terminal. This tool provides a method to quickly test your drivers in an environment that does not support GUIs. See Interactive SQL for details.
  • Changed behavior
    • The default authentication method used by the driver has been updated to user ID/password via LDAP authentication (AuthenticationMethod=userIdPassword). See User ID/password authentication for details.