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The DB2 Wire Protocol Driver

The DataDirect Connect for ODBC and DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC DB2 Wire Protocol driver (the DB2 Wire Protocol driver) each support the following DB2 database servers:
*DB2 V10.1, V10.5 for Linux, UNIX, Windows (LUW)
*DB2 V9.1, V9.5, V9.7, V9.8 for Linux, UNIX, Windows
*DB2 V8.x for Linux, UNIX, Windows
*DB2 11 for z/OS
*DB2 10 for z/OS
*DB2 V9.1 for z/OS
*DB2 i 7.1, 7.2 using DRDA
*DB2 i 6.1 using DRDA
*DB2 for V5R4 using DRDA
Note: This documentation uses the following terms to describe the different DB2 versions:
*"DB2 for Linux/UNIX/Windows" refers to all versions of DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
*"DB2 for z/OS" refers to all versions of DB2 for z/OS (formerly OS/390)
*"DB2 for i" refers to all supported versions of DB2 i 7.1, 6.1, or i5/OS V5R4 (formerly generically referred to as iSeries in this book)
The DB2 Wire Protocol driver is supportedin the Windows, UNIX, and Linux environments. See Environment-Specific Information for detailed information about the environments supported by this driver.
Refer to the readme file shipped with your DataDirect Connect product for the file name of the DB2 Wire Protocol driver.
In this section: 
* Driver Requirements
* Binding
* Configuring and Connecting to Data Sources
* Connection Option Descriptions for DB2
* Performance Considerations
* IBM to IANA Code Page Values
* Data Types
* Unicode Support
* Advanced Features
* Cursor Stability Isolation Level
* XQuery Expressions
* Stored Procedure Support
* Unexpected Characters
* Support for DB2 pureScale
* Persisting a Result Set as an XML Data File
* Isolation and Lock Levels Supported
* SQL Support
* ODBC Conformance Level
* Number of Connections and Statements Supported
* Using Arrays of Parameters