New Features

Numerous new features have been added to DB Link:

• DB Link now enables inheritance from the connection and cursor classes.

Two new classes, IldDbmsModel and IldRequestModel, providing the same functionalities as IldDbms and IldRequest, respectively, may be inherited. (The IldDbms and IldRequest classes still cannot be inherited.) A sample is provided to demonstrate this new feature.

• The kernel of DB Link is now taken out from the RDBMS libraries. Therefore, RDBMS libraries get much smaller.

• A new port for IBM DB2 has been added.

• A new port for Microsoft SQL Server is provided using OLE DB technology instead of DBLIB. This is because Microsoft no longer develops DBLIB, and some new features of SQL Server 7 cannot be used via the DBLIB.