In response to the features requested by the DBD::DB2 user community, IBM announces a new version of the DBD::DB2 driver 0.9a This new release contains the following features requested by DBD::DB2 users
New connection options - This feature allows connections to DB2 by specifying the database server machine name, port number and real database name as connection options. 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. Please refer to the documentation for more details. We have increased our focus on the DB2::DBD driver and any feedback is much appreciated and can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an alpha release and your comments and suggestions will be used to improve the updates to this release.
