Supported Properties and Methods
- Last Updated: April 16, 2026
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See DB2 Data Provider Classes for information about the provider-specific implementation of public properties and methods of the major classes used by the data provider. You can also refer to the data provider’s online help.
The ADO.NET Entity Framework programming contexts inherently eliminate the need to use some ADO.NET methods and properties. These properties and methods remain useful for standard ADO.NET applications.
The following table lists the properties and methods that are not required or are implemented differently when using the Entity Framework data provider with an ADO.NET Entity application.
Properties and Methods Differences with the ADO.NET Entity Data Provider
| Property or Method | Behavior |
| Command | |
| ArrayBindCount | Not supported |
| ArrayBindStatus | Not supported |
| BindByName | Not supported |
| CommandTImeout | Not supported |
| RowSetSize | Not supported |
| UpdatedRowSource | Not supported |
| CommandBuilder | |
| DeriveParameters | Not supported |
| Connection | |
| ConnectionTimeout | Supported only in the connection string |
| CurrentUser | Use the DDTek_Connection_Reauthenticate stored procedure. See Using Pseudo Stored Procedures for information on using this functionality in an ADO.NET Entity Framework application. |
| CurrentUserTimeoutAffinity | Use the DDTek_Connection_Reauthenticate stored procedure. See Using Pseudo Stored Procedures for information on using this functionality in an ADO.NET Entity Framework application. |
| CursorDescriptionCache | Ignored |
| DatabaseCharacterSetName | Ignored |
| SetOEMLicenseInfo | OEM customers must explicitly add a reference to the ADO.NET data provider, and then call the DDTek.DB2.DB2Connection.SetOEMLicenseInfo method. |
| StatisticsEnabled | Use the StatisticsEnabled or StatisticsDisabled stored procedure. See Using Pseudo Stored Procedures for information on using this functionality in an ADO.NET Entity Framework application. |
| DB2ConnectionStringBuilder | |
| CursorDescriptionCache | Ignored |
| Parameter Mode | Ignored |
| Statement Cache Mode | Only ExplicitOnly is supported. |
| DB2DataAdapter | |
| UpdateBatchSize | Not supported |
| DB2Error | |
| ErrorPosition | Not supported |
| SQLState | Not supported |