VORTEX, Java Edition Release Notes

v1.0.0.1 - Beta

• Initial release

v1.0.0.2

• Made thread safe
• Beefed up documentation (including examples)

v1.0.0.3

• EBCDIC support (MVS on S/390)

v1.0.0.4

• Blob support (see sample3.java)
• Optional host authentication (some RDBMSs utilize OS authentication)
• Beefed up documentation

v1.0.0.5

• Allow NULL parameters to be passed to RDBMS

v1.0.0.6

• Set End-Of-Scan flag correctly for queries with no records returned

v2.0.0.0 - Production

• Fixed some strange thread behaviour
• Minor tuneup

v2.0.0.1

• Fixed internal number to string conversion problem

v2.0.0.2

• New dbChannel method: cancel().
• New dbChannel method: getRowsAffected().
• New sample: QueryApplet.

v2.0.0.3

• Fixed cursor reuse problems.

v2.0.0.4

• Uses new VORTEXserver (for firewall hopping)
• New sample: sample6.

v2.0.0.5

• Correct problem where CHAR strings > 255 could not be passed to the server.

v2.0.0.6

• Handles additional connect string info (used for 'firewall' hopping).

v2.0.1.4

• Added getByte() method for fetching byte arrays.

• Added setParam() method for float data.

• Fixed fetch buffer allocation error.

v2.0.1.6

• Fixed getBlob() method.

v2.0.1.7

• Maximum fetch buffer size set at CONFIG time.

v2.0.1.9

• Fixed buffered read problem (a 'Gotcha' as defined by Sun)

v2.0.1.11

• Added isClosed, proxy methods.
• Fixed BLOB handling in getString.
• Fixed uid/pwd handling in authorization.

v2.0.1.12

• Modify close() to match TDBCLNT
• Fixed getByte() length

v2.0.1.13

• Fixed close() method to match correct cursor

v2.0.1.15

• Trim blanks from decribed column names.

v2.0.1.17

• Fixed EBCDIC translations for sbp/sbl

v2.0.1.18

• Various fixes for byte methods

v2.0.1.20

• Fixed EBCDIC translations for authorization, env vars