announce: iODBC driver manager

Posted in 1996

Topics: Installation, Setup & Upgrades, Connectivity: ODBC / JDBC / .NET, Licensing & Editions, Platform-Specific Issues

Ke Jin — 8 Jan 1996 23:40:13 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

iODBC driver manager (a compliant ODBC driver manager on U*ix platfroms) has just been upgraded to version 2.12 which also comes with a test driver -- nntp ODBC driver version 0.3. Source code of iODBC driver manager(and the test driver) now available at: ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/database/perl-interfaces/other/iODBC ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/perl/db/other/iODBC or other mirror sites near you. Ke Jin <kejin@empress.com> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Copying-Policy: Freely Redistributable under GNU General Public License Description: iODBC ( intrinsic Open Database Connectivity ) driver manager is an ODBC 2.0 compliant ODBC driver manager which performs exactly same tasks of ODBC 2.0 driver manager(i.e driver loading, parameters and function sequence checking, driver's function invoking, etc..). Any ODBC driver works with ODBC 2.0 driver manager will also work with iODBC driver manager and vice versa. Applications(which using ODBC function calls ) linked with iODBC driver manager will be able to simultaneously access multiple different type of data sources within a single process through suitable ODBC drivers. Platforms: SunOS (Sparc) 4.1.x HP/UX (s700/s800) 9.x, 10.x HP/UX (s300/s400) 9.x IBM AIX 3.x, 4.x Solaris (Sparc) 2.x Solaris (PCx86) 2.x SGI Irix 5.x, 6.x AT&T GIS (NCR)SVR4 3.x UnixWare SVR4.2 1.x, 2.x Digital Unix(DEC OSF/1) 3.x, 4.x FreeBSD 2.x BSDI BSD/OS 2.x Linux ELF 1.2.x, 1.3.x (Slackware 2.3, Red hat 2.0) SCO OpenServer 5.x Concurrent MAX/OS 1.x DG/UX 5.x