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Error: 'Optional feature not implemented' occurs with the Connect for ODBC drivers

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TitleError: 'Optional feature not implemented' occurs with the Connect for ODBC drivers
URL Name2976
Article Number000121831
EnvironmentProduct: Connect for ODBC
Version: All supported versions
OS: All supported platforms
Database: All supported databases.
Application: All supported applications
Question/Problem Description

Upon calling SQLSetConnectOption, SQLSetStmtOption, SQLSetConnectAttr, SQLSetStmtAttr, SQLGetConnectOption, SQLGetStmtOption, SQLGetConnectAttr, SQLGetStmtAttr, an error might be returned:

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Clarifying Information
Error Message[DataDirect][ODBC xxxxxxxxxl driver]Optional feature not implemented.
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Enhancement Number
Cause
The database does not support the option which the application is attempting to set.
Resolution
This is not a driver issue.

The error 'Optional feature not implemented' is not a fatal error. It is up to the application to decide if the 'missing functionality' is crucial and the connection used by the application must be terminated, or it can continue.

For example an applications usually can live with the fact that for a specific database, the connection the login time-out / statement query cannot be set.

The error is often be seen when an application tries to set connection / statement attributes with a value > 1000 which are reserved for use with specific ODBC drivers.

Workaround
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Last Modified Date3/23/2022 5:01 PM
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