The latest version of DBD::DB2, v1.0, has been released and the source is now available on CPAN. This is a stable version of the previous 0.9a alpha release. This GA driver has the following features and bug fixes:
Tolerated error handling: This feature allows users connecting to federated servers to specify which errors they would like to ignore and those errors will be tolerated. Even if certain errors, specified as tolerable, occur in a query, the query continues to execute. New connection options - This feature allows connections to DB2 by specifying a connection string (dsn, hostname, port number and protocol in addition to userid and password). This is in addition to supporting catalogued database (alias database name) connections to DB2. Improved querying of database metadata - This feature allows users to request information about the DB2 database. If the requested information is not supported by DB2, the driver returns undef instead of an error Choosing current schema - This feature allows users to specify the current database schema at connection time rather than re-specifying it after the connection request. Support for cancel - This feature adds support for the cancel() method which was previously not supported by DBD::DB2. Support XML - This feature adds support for native XML, allowing for data to be stored and retrieved as XML content using features provided in DB2 v9 Support for multibyte codesets - This feature allows the user to write applications for databases created in multibyte codesets. Updated documentation - Improved documentation with added examples displaying new feature functionality. Bug fix to enable iterative execute and fetch Bug fix to handle multiple result sets (compatible with v1.53) Memory leak fix when accessing column names Feedback and suggestions are welcome at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
