CONNECTION STRING FOR ISERIES ACCESS ODBC DRIVER

The valid settings are 0 , the default , for the colon character, 1 for the period character, 2 for the comma character and 3 for the blank character. By default, this value is off, 0. Some values are passed as numbers, some a strings. A value of 1 allows the application only to use statements in the package, whereas a value of 2 allows the application to both use and add statements to the package. Specifies a query options file library. This does incur a slight processing overhead on the client and server, but it seems to be worth the rewarded and noticeable improvement in speed. Because both values changed, most users encounter the error if they uninstall and restore a previous release.

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This setting only has an effect is the TFT is set to 0, the default. If you need updateable cursors, program them using the appropriate API calls. A value of 0 disables data compression.

Connection string keywords

When you use packages, the iSeries database server first looks at statements in the package file to see if this statement has been used before. Specifies one or more trace options. Client codepage setting or 0 use default client codepage setting Default: The following code shows how to generate a communications trace to a directory called TR in the C root. The default library is where any objects you create, which are not qualified with a library namewill be created.

Any of the following values connnection permissible. Where can I find a list of all properties that can be set in the file DSN? You would then use the integer to look up the employee picture large connectio from the large objects table. Any un-qualified table names must exist in the default library, either first in the list or your user name, see rules 1 and 2or they will not be found.

A value of 0the default, will cause srring and lowercase character to be treated equally oodbc sorting. Specifies one or more options to affect how catalog APIs return information. Insert, Update, Delete, Create, etc. In addition, if you specify a library twice in the list your library list may not be replaced, this depends a lot on the version of Client Access and the PTF level on your iSeries.

Client codepage setting or 0 use default client codepage setting. Miscellaneous and Weird Keywords This section documents a few weird settings that you probably do not want to use.

Specifies the naming convention used when referring to tables. The problem with data source names is that each time you attempt to connect; the program has to look up information isseries the connection options in the Windows registry.

I continue to use the previous driver name, so that my software is compatible with previous versions of Client Access.

If a default library is not set, any unqualified SQL statements WILL cause the database server to search the library list for that table.

Choose from the following tables for more information on the connection string keywords that are recognized by the IBM i Access support for the ODBC driver.

Stack Overflow works best with JavaScript enabled. Settings that Affect Data Formatting The data formatting keywords allow you to specify the way date, time and decimal values are handled by the iSeries when returning data. Finally, some of you will notice that if you use a UDL strig create a connection string and set package properties, the iSeries will place the at the end of the PKG keyword argument rather than a 0.

The first library listed in this property will also be the default schema or librarywhich is used to resolve unqualified names in SQL statements. This helps when your application is using prepared SQL statements as the open cursors can be reused. ODBC has several API functions for querying the connected systems catalogues to find information on tables, indexes, columns, primary and foreign keys and permissions.

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Here is an example connection string that has been formatted with Make Pretty: That is the minimum information required to generate a connection string. Job traces can be really helpful when diagnosing obscure problems with the SQL system. If you vor to control the package used, the only way to do it seems to be fo use the SQLSetConnectAttr API with and set attribute to the name of the package you cnonection to use.

The default value, 0will cause the driver to use the settings within the application whereas the value 1 will cause all statements to be generated as updateable cursors. I have played with the column privileges under ADO and noticed that I get no result set and it takes a long time to process with setting 2.

This option is only honored if set by an application.