viii What’s New
Beginning with V9, support is discontinued for the following:
SAS/ACCESS interface to CA-OpenIngres
SAS/ACCESS interfaces to DB2 and Oracle under VM
SAS/ACCESS interface to Rdb under Alpha/OpenVMS
OS/2 and OpenVMS VAX platforms
SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 under OS/390
The following options are new:
DEGREE= determines whether DB2 uses parallelism.
BL_DB2LDCT3= specifies a string in the LOAD utility control statement,
following the (
field specification).
TRAP151= enables non-updatable columns to be removed from a FOR UPDATE
OF clause so that updating of columns can continue.
SAS/ACCESS Interface to DB2 under UNIX and PC Hosts
The following options are new:
DBSLICE= specifies user-supplied WHERE clauses to partition a DBMS query
into component queries for threaded reads.
DBSLICEPARM= controls the scope of DBMS threaded reads and the number of
threads.
SAS/ACCESS Interface to ODBC
The following feature and options are new:
ODBC 3.x standard API is supported.
DBSLICE= specifies user-supplied WHERE clauses to partition a DBMS query
into component queries for threaded reads.
DBSLICEPARM= controls the scope of DBMS threaded reads and the number of
threads.
SAS/ACCESS Interface to OLE DB
The new INSERTBUFF= option specifies the number of rows in a single insert
operation.
SAS/ACCESS Interface to Oracle
The following options are new:
DBSLICE= specifies user-supplied WHERE clauses to partition a DBMS query
into component queries for threaded reads.
DBSLICEPARM= controls the scope of DBMS threaded reads and the number of
threads.
