What's new in this release?

Support and certification

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.

Changes for 6.0.1 GA

• Enhancements
  • The driver has been enhanced to support SAP BW/4HANA and other SAP ODATA V2 services exposed through the SAP Gateway.
    • For details, see Supported SQL statements and extensions.
    • For information on SAP services that use ODATA V2 APIs, refer to the SAP API documentation: ODATA V2.
  • The driver has been enhanced to support CDS views that require parameters. For details, see CDS views.
  • The driver has been enhanced to support HTTP Header authentication for use with the S/4HANA sandbox hosted at https://api.sap.com. See HTTP header authentication (S/4HANA only) for details.
  • The driver has been enhanced to support a default value of 100000 and a maximum value of 1000000 for the connection property WSFetchSize.

  • The driver has been enhanced to determine the maximum size of VARCHAR columns within the result set metadata using the new MaxVarcharSize connection property.

• Changed Behavior
  • The HostName connection property has been renamed ServerName. To support existing configurations, HostName will continue to be supported as an alias for ServerName. See ServerName for details.

Highlights of 6.0.0 Release

• The driver supports SQL read-write access to SAP S/4HANA. For details, see Supported SQL statements and extensions and Introduction to the SAP S/4HANA data model.

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

• The driver supports S/4HANA data types through data type inference. See Data types and getTypeInfo() for details.
• The driver supports custom fields, including many fields added through third-party plug-ins.
• The driver supports Basic authentication. See Basic authentication for more details.
• The driver supports the handling of large result sets with paging, and the FetchSize and WSFetchSize connection properties.
• The driver includes the DataDirect JDBC Driver Configuration Manager for quick configuration and testing of your driver in a web browser. The tool allows you to:
  • Generate and edit connection URLs
  • Test connect your connection URLs
  • Execute SQL commands for testing

  For details, see Generating connection URLs with the Configuration Manager and Testing connections and queries.