Troubleshoot ODBC

Helps you solve a few of the more commonly encountered difficulties with iSeries™ Access for Windows^® and ODBC. It also identifies several tools that can help you remove performance bottlenecks. You should review this information before contacting technical support.

For help with integrating ODBC support into your applications, refer to the iSeries Access for Windows ODBC programming, where you can get information on the following subtopics:

• ODBC API list
• ODBC API implementation
• Programming examples
• ODBC performance

The following topics provide general guidelines for finding and resolving iSeries Access for Windows ODBC errors:

• ODBC diagnostic and performance tools
  Use tools to help diagnose ODBC problems.
• iSeries Access ODBC error messages
  When an error occurs, the iSeries Access ODBC driver returns the SQLSTATE (an ODBC error code) and an error message. The driver obtains this information both from errors that are detected by the driver and from errors that are returned by the DBMS.
• Troubleshoot the iSeries server connection
  Each ODBC connection communicates with one database server program that runs on the iSeries server. This program is referred to as the host server program.
• Common ODBC errors
  Find and resolve ODBC errors.
• Gather information for IBM Support
  The IBM^® Support staff can offer you better service, if you have certain information available when you open a problem record to IBM^® Support.