What's new in this release?
- Last Updated: October 22, 2025
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- DataDirect Connectors
- JDBC
- IBM Informix 6.0
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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
SpyAttributeshas been updated to exclude the attributeload=classname, which was previously used to load the driver specified by the given class name. See SpyAttributes for details.
- The connection property
Changes for 6.0.0 GA
- Driver Enhancements
- The driver has been enhanced to include timestamp in
the Spy and JDBC packet logs by default. If required, you can disable
the timestamp logging by specifying the following at connection: For Spy
logs, set
spyAttributes=(log=(file)Spy.log;timestamp=no)and for JDBC packet logs, setddtdbg.ProtocolTraceShowTime=false. - Interactive SQL for JDBC (JDBCISQL) is now installed with the product. JDBCISQL 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 JDBC (JDBCISQL) for details.
- The RegisterStatementPoolMonitorMBean connection
property has been added. Note that the driver no longer registers the
Statement Pool Monitor as a JMX MBean by default. You must set
RegisterStatementPoolMonitorMBean to
trueto register the Statement Pool Monitor and manage statement pooling with standard JMX API calls. See RegisterStatementPoolMonitorMBean for details.
- The driver has been enhanced to include timestamp in
the Spy and JDBC packet logs by default. If required, you can disable
the timestamp logging by specifying the following at connection: For Spy
logs, set
- Changed Behavior
- If you attempt to execute a DatabaseMetadata API with catalogName filter set as
''(Empty String) against Informix 14.1, the API will return the full list of objects instead of an empty result. All DatabaseMetadata APIs, such as getTables() and getColumns(), which support catalogName as filter are affected by this behavior.
- If you attempt to execute a DatabaseMetadata API with catalogName filter set as