ECDA Option for ODBC is a Sybase solution that gives client applications ODBC data access. It combines the functionality of the ECDA Option for ODBC architecture with ODBC to provide dynamic SQL access to target data, as well as the ability to support stored procedures and text and image pointers
The ECDA Option for ODBC provides access management, copy management, and remote systems management. It consists of:
The DirectConnect server, which provides management and support functions for DirectConnect service libraries
An access service library, which accesses data from a particular target database, including DB2 UDB, Microsoft SQL Server, and other ODBC-accessible databases
Access services, which contain specific sets of configuration properties relating to the target to be accessed and define how each access service behaves
Using the IBM Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) protocol, ECDA Option for ODBC supports access to DB2 UDB on z/OS, Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms.
For more information about ECDA architecture, see the Enterprise Connect Data Access Overview Guide.
