IBM Data Server Driver restrictions

DB2 Version 9.7 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows

The IBM® Data Server Driver Package simplifies application deployment. However, certain restrictions apply.

The following restrictions apply toIBM Data Server Driver Package:

No other database product can be installed in the same path if IBM Data Server Driver Package is already installed.
On Windows® operating systems, you can install a maximum of 16 copies of IBM Data Server Driver Package.
To connect to a z/OS® server or a System i® server, you must register a DB2® Connect™ license key. (Retrieve the license file from your Passport Advantage® distribution, for example db2conpe.lic, then copy the license file to the license directory under the directory where the driver was installed.)
XA connections against a z/OS server are supported. However, XA connections against a System i server are not supported.
If you use the configuration file db2dsdriver.cfg to specify aliases, the following entries must contain a value:
- DSN_Collection entries (alias, name, host, and port)
- database entries (name, host, port).
These entries must be specified and cannot be empty.
The CLI/ODBC configuration keyword DBNAME is not supported.
The CLI LOAD utility statement attribute, sql_attr_use_load_api, is not supported.

There is no local database directory. Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is supported, but the LDAP cache is not saved to disk.