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Background

The X/Open Company and the SQL Access Group jointly developed a specification for a callable SQL interface, referred to as the X/Open Call Level Interface. The goal of this interface is to increase portability of applications by enabling them to become independent of any one database vendor's programming interface.

ODBC was originally developed by Microsoft for Microsoft operating systems based on a preliminary draft of X/Open CLI. Since this time, other vendors have provided ODBC drivers that run on other platforms, such as OS/2 and UNIX systems.

The descriptions and examples in this chapter apply to ODBC Version 3.0. For detailed information about ODBC include files, see Using the supplied include files.

Rational Developer for System z
PL/I for Windows, Version 8.0, Programming Guide