Pre-Installation Requirements for the Single-Tier "Lite" Edition ODBC Driver for Progress/OpenEdge, for Windows

DBMS Requirements

You need to know a variety of information pertaining to your target Progress/OpenEdge instance and database:

• The Progress Startup Mode (Sockets or Shared Memory)
  
  • The Single-Tier driver cannot connect over Shared Memory, so you may need to restart your Progress database in sockets mode
    
  • Once running in Sockets mode, you need to know the TCP socket service name and/or port number
    
• The Progress SQL Engine Capabilities at Startup (4GL, SQL, Both)
  
  • Progress 8 and earlier engines only support 4GL, and you can only use our SQL-89 drivers
    
  • Progress 9 engines support both 4GL and SQL, and you can use either our SQL-89 or SQL-92 drivers
    
  • OpenEdge 10 and later engines only support SQL, and you can only use our SQL-92 drivers
    
• Your Progress database server's hostname or IP address
  
• Your Progress database tcp socket service name and port number
  
• Whether or not your database queries fire 4GL triggers (primarily a concern for SQL-89 connections)
  
• Whether or not your database queries involve Array fields (primarily a concern for SQL-89 connections)

Software Requirements

1. Progress Client layer
   

   To connect to this DBMS Version	You need these components ...	...on the same host as these
   Progress 8.x or earlier	Progress® Client Networking	SQL-89 Lite Drivers
   Progress 9.x in SQL-89 or 4GL mode	Progress® Client Networking	SQL-89 Lite Drivers
   Progress 9.x in SQL-92 mode	Progress® SQL-92 Client Access	SQL-92 Lite Drivers
   Progress OpenEdge 10.x or later	Progress® SQL-92 Client Access	SQL-92 Lite Drivers

   
   
   • The Progress® Client Networking or Progress® SQL-92 Client Access must be licensed from Progress Software. OpenLink Software cannot provide such licenses.
     
   • Installers for Progress® Client Networking or Progress® SQL-92 Client Access must be obtained from your Progress distribution media or the Progress Web site. OpenLink Software cannot provide such installers.
     
2. SQL-89 vs SQL-92
   
   • The SQL-89 drivers are Progress version-specific, with names like Multi-Threaded ODBC Driver for Progress 9.1D or Single-Threaded ODBC Driver for Progress 8.3E. These drivers offer support for Progress triggers, Progress Distributed Databases (i.e., connections to multiple databases over a single ODBC connection), our specialized tableview configuration, and a particular presentation of Progress array data familiar to the Progress community. SQL-92 drivers, which all specify "(SQL-92)" in their name, do not support SQL-89/4GL functionality.
     
   • The SQL-92 drivers have a more generic branding such as Multi-Threaded ODBC Driver for Progress 9.1 (SQL-92). These drivers enable SQL-92 queries against Progress 9.x and later, including OpenEdge 10.x and later. SQL-89 drivers, which all specify a "letter" version of Progress (e.g., 8.3C, 9.1B) do not support SQL-92 functionality.
     
3. 32-bit vs 64-bit
   
   • 32-bit Progress Clients can only be used with 32-bit Single-Tier drivers, which can only be used with 32-bit client applications.
     
   • 64-bit Progress Clients can only be used with 64-bit Single-Tier drivers, which can only be used with 64-bit client applications.
     
   • If your components do not all match "bitness," open a Support Case for assistance in selecting the best path forward, e.g.,
     
     1. If available, getting the Progress Client of the required "bitness";
        
     2. If available, getting a client application of the required "bitness"; or
        
     3. If the bitness-matched Progress Client and ODBC client application do not exist, changing to a bitness-bridging ODBC driver.

Configuration Requirements

• Ensure that the local Progress Client Networking connects to the target Progress DBMS.

Next...

• Proceed to Installation Documentation
  
  • for SQL-92 connections
    
  • for SQL-89 connections