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Date:	Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:23:36 PST
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
To:	scoug-programming@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Programming: ODBC drivers for DBExpert with DB2

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> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:16:08 PST, Peter Skye wrote:
>
> >My curiosity surpasses just tech support (I've got
> >both products) -- I want to know what functionality
> >is different between the drivers and why DBExpert
> >requires a new version of the driver.

Rollin White wrote:
>
> It's actually the opposite. DBExpert uses an older
> version of the driver. There are several reasons,
> but the biggest being that IBM has licensed the
> drivers from Intersolv and then enhanced them in
> ways that we don't have access to.

But that doesn't explain why the DB2 version doesn't work. And now
you've brought up an interesting point - to use DBExpert, you have to
backlevel the driver. If IBM enhanced the driver, there must be
something new in it that DB2 requires. Yes?

- Peter Skye

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