Support and certification

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Changes Since 7.1.6 GA

  • Driver Enhancements
    • 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.
    • The new Managed Objects connection option allows you to specify the managed objects that you want the driver to fetch metadata for. For details, see Managed Objects
    • The new Enable Access Request Header connection option allows you to enable the access request header for a connection to improve its performance and quality of service. For details, see Enable Access Request Header
    • The new NamedIDBehavior config option allows you to determine whether the Name attribute of NamedID fields is exposed in the relational map. This option can be used to avoid "poor performing query" errors by reducing the size of result sets. For details, see "Poor performing query" error message and NamedIDBehavior (Config Option).
  • Driver Changes
    • The Interface Name connection option has been deprecated. The driver will continue to provide backward compatibility for it, but will not use it for connections in the current and new versions.

Changes for 7.1.6 GA

  • Driver Enhancements
    • The new Min Long Varchar Size connection option allows you to fetch SQL_LONGVARCHAR columns whose size is smaller than the minimum imposed by some third-party applications, such as SQL Server Linked Server. See Min Long Varchar Size for details.
    • The new Varchar Threshold connection option allows you to fetch columns that would otherwise exceed the upper limit of the SQL_VARCHAR type for some third-party applications, such as SQL Server Linked Server. See Varchar Threshold for details.

Release Highlights for 7.1.5 GA

  • Support for all ODBC Core functions.
  • Support for core SQL-92 grammar.
  • Maps the Oracle Service Cloud data model to a set of relational tables.
  • Support for client-side data cache for improved performance.