No, but they do conform to an SQL standard...  Just like Oracle, mySQL,
etc.

IF IBM is going to publish an ODBC driver, it should be SQL compliant.
(At least behave the same as any other ODBC driver would minus the VSG
crap)

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jpb-u2ug
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] Crystal Reports and UniData

David,
I think you have the emphasis on the wrong party here. IBM U2 is the
database not the reporting tool. I don't think it is IBM's
responsibility to
try and comply with a tool, any tool, it is the other way around. Since
CR
is suppose to talk to a database and get the information from a database
it
is their responsibility to try and comply with it. If they don't want
to,
then they are not the tool you want to use. Find one that will. It is
IBM
U2's responsibility to comply with the operating systems that are
available
and to provide standardized access to the database. Do you think
Microsoft
tries to make SQL Server compliant with CR?

Jerry Banker

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wolverton
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 11:37 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] Crystal Reports and UniData

Yup - I received your email -- And I'm glad this is moving up the chain.

The bigger question to the User Group -- Are there 3rd party products
that
we as vendors and users **need** IBM to ensure work at some base level?
Are
there 'natural use' products that IBM really does need to test and
assure a
base-level of compliance with?? 

Today, IBM certifies that UniData works on Windows, and several versions
of
Unix and Linux -- and that if U2 does not work with those products, it
would
be a 'tier one' issue to resolve.

In a very short period of time, it appears any new client we get will be
expecting that same 'Tier one' support for Crystal Reports, and we don't
have a mechanism to ensure that support.  Are there products like these
that
are 'add ons', but essentially 'core' or 'natural use' extensions that
need
to be tested in the same way the O/Ss are tested??


David W.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Peters
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 5:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] Crystal Reports and UniData
> 
> I wanted to send a note on this much earlier, but have been 
> tied up until now.  We can't certify that other solutions, 
> such as C.R., will work with our products, but we really do 
> want them to work.  It sort of makes sense that we would, 
> because if our customers can't succeed with their 
> solutions, neither will we.
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