What’s New in Version 4.0
The Microsoft OLE DB Provider for DB2 version 4.0 offers the following improvements:
Simplified installation program
Connectivity to DB2 for z/OS V10
Connectivity to DB2 for i5/OS V7R1
Client Transaction Load Balancing
OpenRowset using FastLoad when connecting to DB2 for z/OS and DB2 for LUW
Reading DB2 Binary Large Object (BLOB) and Character Large Object (CLOB) data types
Writing DB2 BLOB and CLOB data types using Command with Parameters
DB2 Decimal as OLE DB Numeric data type mapping
SQL Server DATETIME2 data type
DB2 long object identifiers
Accessing DB2 tables with large number of columns and parameters
Reading schema information stored in DB2 shadow catalog tables
Session and command source identifiers
Reason codes included in error information
Extended error documentation