RELEASE NOTES FOR
Informix ODBC Driver
DATE 10/17/00
Version 3.33
Table of Contents
  I.Overview of Release Notes
 II.Database Server Names and Versions
III.New Features
 IV.Known Problems
  V.Fixed Problems

I.OVERVIEW OF RELEASE NOTES
==============================

The purpose of these release notes is to make you aware of any special
actions required to configure and use the Informix ODBC Driver on your
computer. This file also contains information about known bugs and their
workarounds.

This release notes document is not intended to be all-inclusive; it should
be used as an addendum to the Informix ODBC Driver, which provides
thorough information about product features and behavior.

These release notes are written for the following audience

  o System administrators who install Informix database servers

  o Database administrators who control access to Informix databases

  o Developers who write applications using ODBC

Version 3.33 of Informix ODBC Driver has been tested with the following
database se3ver configurations

  o Informix Dynamic Server, Version 5.10

  o Informix Dynamic Server, Versions 7.24 and 7.3x

  o Informix Dynamic Server with Advanced Decision Support and Extended
    Parallel Options, Version 8.21 and Extended Parallel Server, Version
    8.3x

  o Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data Option, Version 9.14
    (Windows NT) and Informix Dynamic Server 2000, Version 9.2x (UNIX)


II.DATABASE SERVER NAMES AND VERSIONS
=======================================

This manual might not reflect the latest names of Informix database
servers. The following table lists the database server versions and their
corresponding names.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Database Server    | Database Server Names                              |
| Version Numbers    |                                                    |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 5.x                | INFORMIX-OnLine and INFORMIX-SE        |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 7.1x, 7.2x         | INFORMIX-OnLine Dynamic Server and             |
|                    | INFORMIX-SE                                |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 7.3x               | Informix Dynamic Server                            |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 8.1x               | INFORMIX-OnLine XPS                        |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 8.2x               | Informix Dynamic Server with Advanced Decision     |
|                    | Support and Extended Parallel Options              |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 8.3                | Informix Extended Parallel Server (XPS) or         |
|                    | Informix Enterprise Decision Server                |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 9.01, 9.1 through  | INFORMIX-Universal Server                      |
| 9.13               |                                                    |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 9.14               | Informix Dynamic Server with Universal Data        |
|                    | Option                                             |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 9.2                | Informix Dynamic Server 2000                       |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------


III.NEW FEATURES
===================

ODBC 3.33
     Supports for new/enhanced SQL statements of latest 9.x Server
     Supports for new SQL statements of 8.3x Server


IV.KNOWN PROBLEMS
===================

This section describes the known problems with this release of the
Informix ODBC Driver and, if possible, shows how to work around these
problems.

1.   Bug 129096
      "USING FULLY-QUALIFIED HOST NAME IN ODBC DRIVER SETUP CORRUPTS REGISTRY"

     Workaround Use HOST name without domain qualifier.

2.   Bug 120521
      SQLTABLES DOES NOT TREAT CATALOGNAME (DATABASE NAME) AS A PATTERN
     VALUE. IT ALWAYS TREATS IT AS AN ORDINARY ARGUMENT OR AS AN IDENTIFIER



V.FIXED PROBLEMS
===================

The following problems have been fixed in the Informix ODBC Driver in
ClientSDK 2.60.

1.   Bug 130096
     SQLEXECDIRECT DUMPS CORE EXECUTING A SELECT STATEMET WITH A LONG IN
CLAUSE      AND ODBC TRACE IS ON USING DRIVER MANAGER REPLACEMENT MODULE
IDMRS09A.SO

2.   Bug 130975
     ODBC ARRAY INSERT DOESN'T CORRECTLY REPORT STATUS FOR INDIVIDUAL ROWS
     (DUPLICATE KEY REPORTED FOR WRONG ROW) !SAP!

3.   Bug 131653
     /VOBS/TRISTARM/ODBC/ODSQLI.C CAUSES COMPILE ERRORS DUE TO TYPE MISMATCH.

4.   Bug 132158
     SQLFREESTMT WILL CORE DUMP WHEN TRYING TO FREE A PREVIOUSLY PREPARED
     STATE MENT IF THAT STMT CONTAINS MORE THEN 258 NUMERIC FIELDS IN THE
     SELECT LIST

5.   Bug 126817
     ODBC DRIVER FAILS TO ENLIST TRANSACTION WHEN USING DSNLESS CONNECTION
     WITH MTS

6.   Bug 131006
     CONNECTION ATTRIBUTES WHICH CAN BE SET THROUGH A CALL TO
     SQLSETCONNECTATTR OR THE DSN ARE IGNORED IF SET THROUGH THE FUNCTION
     BEFORE CONNECTING

7.   Bug 131012
     SQL_INFX_ATTR_ODBC_TYPES_ONLY CAN NOT BE SET THROUGH SQLSETCONNECTATTR

8.   Bug 116726
     SQLGETDATA PUTS THE WRONG VALUE IN THE LENGTH OR INDICATOR POINTER WHEN
     SELECTING AN INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR INTO AN SQL_C_CHAR

9.   Bug 117572
     DOCODBC 3.30 DRIVER MANUAL STATES WRONG PATH FOR TRANSLATION LIBRARY

10.  Bug 131011
     CALLING SQLSETCONNECTATTR(SQL_ATTR_CURRENT_CATALOG) CAN CAUSE AN ACCESS
     VIOLATION

11.  Bug 131229
     DSNLESS CONNECTION WITH 3.32 DRIVER RETURNS 25596 ERROR WHEN SETNET32
     IS NOT POPULATED

12.  Bug 132186
     IN SQLDRIVERCONNECT API "FILEDSN" KEYWORD GENERATES ERROR NO -11060

13.  Bug 132301
     ABSOLUTE PATH DOES NOT WORK WITH SAVEFILE AND FILEDSN KEYWORD IN
     SQLDRIVERCONNECT