Introduction

The Progress® OpenEdge® DataServer for ODBC allows you to develop and deploy OpenEdge ABL or WebSpeed® applications that access DB2 UDBâ and Sybaseâ data sources. Throughout this manual, the term ODBC data sources, or simply data sources, refers specifically to these data sources.

The OpenEdge DataServer for ODBC is fully compliant with ODBC-3.5. However, the OpenEdge DataServer for ODBC only partially implements ODBC-2.0 and ODBC-3.0 features, such as stored procedures. For more information on stored procedures and other programming feature functionality, see Programming Considerations

This chapter introduces you to the DataServer for ODBC. It describes the DataServer components, utilities, and configurations.