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General description [Table of Contents] sp_helpserver

Access Service User's Guide DirectConnect for AS/400

[-] Chapter 13 Retrieving information with System Procedures
[-] sp_capabilities

sp_capabilities

Description

Returns the SQL capabilities of an access service.

Syntax

sp_capabilities

Parameters

This procedure does not allow parameters.

Usage

The result set contains information that allows applications to successfully interact with an access service during normal query processing.

This procedure is used by ASE/CIS to determine the capabilities of a data source such as DirectConnect, enabling ASE/CIS to send only SQL that can be handled by DirectConnect.

The following table shows the result set:

Result set for sp_capabilities

Column

Datatype

Description

ID

int

Capability ID

CAPABILITY_NAME

char(30)

Capability name

VALUE

int

Capability value

DESCRIPTION

char(128)

Capability description

The following table shows the ID and values for several access service functional capabilities:

sp_capabilities information

ID

Capability

Value Description

101

SQL syntax

1=SybaseT-SQL supported 2=DB2 SQL supported

102

Join handling

0=Unsupported 1=No outer join supported 2=T-SQL support 3=Oracle supported

103

Aggregate handling

0=Unsupported 1=ANSI supported 2=All functions

104

AND predicates

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

105

OR predicates

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

106

LIKE predicates

0=Unsupported 1=ANSI-style supported 2=T-SQL supported

107

Bulk insert handling

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

108

Text and image handling

0=Unsupported 1=Text, no textptr 2=Text and textptr

109

Transaction handling

0=Unsupported 1=Local supported 2=Two-phase commit supported

110

Text pattern handling

0=Unsupported 1=Pattern (text) supported

111

order by

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

112

group by

0=Unsupported 1=ANSI supported 2=T-SQL supported

113

Net password encryption

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

114

Object case sensitivity

0=Case insensitive 1=Case sensitive

115

distinct

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

116

Wild card escape

0=Unsupported Non-zero=Escape_char(s)

117

Union handling

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

118

String functions

0=Unsupported 1=Substring supported 2=Oracle subset supported 3=T-SQL supported

119

Expression handling

0=Unsupported 1=ANSI supported 2=T-SQL supported

120

Character truncation

0=Fixed length character parameters may contain trailing blanks

1=Fixed length character parameters will not contain trailing blanks

121

Language events

0=Unsupported 1=T-SQL DML without datetime in the where clause supported 2=T-SQL DML supported

122

Date functions

0=Unsupported 1=T-SQL date functions supported

123

Math functions

0=Unsupported 1=Oracle functions supported 2=T-SQL math functions supported

124

T-SQL convert functions

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

125

T-SQL delete/update

0=Sybase extensions not supported 1=Sybase extensions supported

126

Insert/select handling

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

127

Subquery handling

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

128

IN/NOT IN support

0=Unsupported 1=Supported

129

CASE support

0=Unsupported 1=Supported


General description [Table of Contents] sp_helpserver