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

Changes since 8.0.0

  • Enhancements
    • The driver has been enhanced to support the Bearer token authentication. See Bearer token authentication for details.
    • A Password Encryption Tool, called ddencpwd, is now included with the product package. It encrypts passwords for secure handling in connection strings and odbc.ini files. At connection, the driver decrypts these passwords and passes them to the data source as required. See Password Encryption Tool (UNIX/Linux only) for details.
  • Changed Behavior
    • The Server Name (ServerName) connection option has been renamed Host Name (HostName). To support existing configurations, the ServerName attribute will continue to be supported as an alias for the Host Name option. See Host Name for details.
    • The default value of the Authentication Method (AuthenticationMethod) connection option has been changed to 34 (BearerToken). See Bearer token authentication for details.
    • For Windows platforms, the default value of the SQL Engine Mode (SQLEngineMode) connection option has been changed to 1 (Server). See SQL Engine Mode for details.

Highlights of 8.0.0 Release

  • Supports SQL read-only access to GitHub.

  • Supports all ODBC Core and Level 1 functions and some Level 1 and Level 2 features.

    Refer to Scalar functions in the Progress DataDirect for ODBC Drivers Reference for more information.

  • Supports GitHub data types through data type inference. See Data types for details.
  • Supports OAuth 2.0 authentication. See OAuth 2.0 authentication for supported grant types and further details.
  • Supports Basic authentication. See Basic authentication for details.
  • Supports the handling of large result sets with paging and the Fetch Size (FetchSize) connection option. See Fetch Size for details.
  • On Windows platforms, includes a redesigned ODBC Setup dialog, the DataDirect ODBC Driver Configuration Manager, for quick configuration and testing of your driver. This Configuration Manager allows you to:
    • Configure data sources
    • Generate and edit connection strings
    • Test connect data sources and connection strings
    • Execute SQL commands for testing
    • Fetch OAuth tokens and configure OAuth
    • Access connection property descriptions and the full product documentation

    See Configuring data sources with the Configuration Manager and Generating connection strings with the Configuration Manager for details.