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ELOQUENCE B.07.10 - patch PE71-0802280

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This patch provides enhancements and/or defect fixes for the Odbc.DLL
program as released with Eloquence B.07.10. This patch will be 
integrated in the Eloquence B.07.10 release.

Eloquence B.07.10 must be installed before applying this patch.

Severity:
 PE71-0802280: BUX FIX

Superseded patches:
 PE71-0710250: BUX FIX
 PE71-0710160: BUX FIX
 PE71-0701090: BUX FIX


Patch PE71-0802280
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Platforms: All

* The GetError procedure now traverses up the error stack in the
  ODBC driver manager and the ODBC driver. Previously, only the
  error information from the current context was retrieved.

  For example, in a connection context the connection related
  error information and in a statement context the statement
  related error information was retrieved. This way, in rare
  cases an error message could be missed, for example if the
  ODBC driver generates a connection related error message in
  a statement context.

* Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.10"


Patch PE71-0710250
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Platforms: All

* Using the Fetch procedure with an XPACK buffer could result in
  a wrong XPACK encoding, causing ERROR 204 on XUNPACK.
  String variable names derived from column titles could become
  one character too long.

* Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.9"


Patch PE71-0710160
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Platforms: All

* The SetParam procedure did not work as expected.

* Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.8"


Patch PE71-0701090
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Platforms: All

* Worked around an incompatibility in the FreeTDS ODBC driver that
  does not support the SQLDescribeParam() ODBC function.

  If the SQLDescribeParam() ODBC function is not supported, the
  data type of a SQL query parameter is unknown. The Odbc.DLL now
  handles this by binding the parameter at a later stage when the
  application defines the data type.

  As a consequence, the application should take care to provide
  an appropriate parameter data type if the FreeTDS ODBC driver
  is used, otherwise a data type mismatch error may result.

* Changed the Windows file version to "7.1.0.7"


Installation:
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Please download the patch archive that corresponds with the installed
release.  The patch files follow the conventions below:

   PE71-0802280-hpux-ia64.tar.gz
        ^       ^    ^
        |       |    Architecture / OS specific build
        |       Operating system
        Patch ID


HP-UX:

In order to install this patch, you need to unpack it with gzip and tar.
Gzip is included with HP-UX. Installation requires root privileges.

cd /opt/eloquence6
gzip -dc /path/to/PE71-0802280-hpux.tar.gz | tar xf -

Files:

   dll/Odbc.DLL
   share/doc/PE71-0802280-README


Linux:

In order to install this patch, you need to unpack it with tar.
Installation requires root privileges.

cd /opt/eloquence6
tar xzf /path/to/PE71-0802280-linux.tar.gz

Files:

   dll/Odbc.DLL
   share/doc/PE71-0802280-README


Windows:

Two options are available for patch installation. The patch is
available as self extracting archive for automatic installation
and as a zip archive for manual installation. Both patches are
equivalent. Installation requires administrative capabilities.

For autmatic installation of this patch, please download the patch
file PE71-0802280-win32.exe file. Before installation, please
consider closing all applications and execute the patch installation
program. Installation does not require a reboot unless the patched
files were active.

For a manual installation of the patch, please download the
patch file PE71-0802280-win32.zip file and unpack its contents.
Then perform the following steps:

* Please copy the Odbc.DLL file into the dll subdirectory of your
  Eloquence installation (for example C:\Programs\Eloquence\dll).

* Please copy the PE71-0802280-README.txt file into the share\doc
  subdirectory of your Eloquence installation (for example
  C:\Programs\Eloquence\share\doc).

Files:

   Odbc.DLL
   PE71-0802280-README.txt