The OpenEdge Hive

This zip file contains utilities and documents to aid the transformation from the V9.1C Progress/400 DataServer to the OpenEdge DataServer for ODBC. The OpenEdge DataServer for ODBC is not a direct product replacement for the Progress/400 DataServer, which retired in September 2004. The OpenEdge DataServer for ODBC provides generic connectivity to various data sources (including DB2 for Windows and the AS/400) via the ODBC open standard protocol. Although the ODBC protocol is in alignment with IBMs UDB2 RDBMS strategy (SQL only access) the generic nature of the OpenEdge DataServer for ODBC means that that specific RDBMS features related to functionality and performance can not be utilized and therefore performance (as compared to the Progress/400 DataServer) is going to be an area of the transformation process that will require special attention. The embedded whitepaper titled DB2 Accessibility Whitepaper May 2006 is currently a draft edition and will be updated overtime.