Support and Certifications

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

Changes Since 8.0.0 GA

  • Enhancements

    • The driver has been enhanced to fetch multiple requests simultaneously, thereby improving throughput and performance. You can configure this behavior using the new Read Ahead (ReadAhead) connection option. See Read Ahead 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
    • On Windows platforms, the default setting for the SQL Engine Mode (SQLEngineMode) option has changed to 1 (Server). See SQL Engine Mode for further details.
    • 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.
Note: For the latest updates, refer to the readme file installed with the product.

Highlights of 8.0.0 Release

  • The driver supports SQL read-only access to TeamCity. See Supported SQL statements and extensions for details.
  • The driver supports all ODBC Core and Level 1 functions and some Level 1 and Level 2 features.

    Refer to ODBC API and scalar functions in the Progress DataDirect for ODBC Drivers Reference for additional information.

  • The driver supports TeamCity data types through data type inference. See Data types for details.
  • The driver supports Bearer Token authentication. See Bearer token authentication method for further details.
  • The driver supports Basic authentication. See Basic authentication method for further details.
  • The driver supports the handling of large result sets with paging, and the Fetch Size (FetchSize) connection option. See Fetch Size for details.
  • On Windows platforms, the driver includes an enhanced 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
    • Access connection option descriptions and the full product documentation

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