New Keywords in Connection String Properties

Client-Library has new keywords to the API routine, ct_connect_string().

ct_connect_string()

Name Description Value

DataOrigin

Enables data origin stamping.

Data origin stamping verifies that data is sent by the client or the server.

Boolean value.

The default is false.

FIPSMode

FIPSMode determines the use of FIPS compliant algorithms for SSL encryption. See also context property CS_PROP_FIPSMODE.

Boolean value.

The default is false.

HAFailover

Determines high availability failover.

Boolean value.

The default is false.

PasswordEncryptionOnRetry

The keyword PasswordEncryption enables both CS_SEC_ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD and CS_SEC_EXTENDED_ENCRYPTED_PASSWORD for a connection.

PasswordEncryptionOnRetry ensures that a client application connecting to an old server can still use the older form of password encryption if the server does not support the newer version.

Boolean value.

The default is false.

Example:

CS_SEC_DATAORIGIN    Boolean;
CS_PROP_FIPSMODE    Boolean;
CS_HAFAILOVER    Boolean;
CS_SEC_NON_ENCRYPTION_RETRY    Boolean;