These topics contain information about the data types that
are supported by HCL Informix®
ODBC Driver.
Data types HCL Informix
ODBC Driver supports
five different data types.
SQL data types HCL Informix database
server uses SQL data types.
C data types HCL Informix
ODBC Driver applications use C data
types to store values that the application processes.
Report standard ODBC types HCL Informix
ODBC Driver supports
existing applications that support standard ODBC data types only.
Check the DSN option Report Standard ODBC Types to turn on
this behavior.
Convert data
The word convert is used in this section in
a broad sense; it includes the transfer of data from one storage location
to another without a conversion in data type.