[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: ODBC behavior with pre-bound packages

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Brian Derwart

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John, Glad to hear you got this all working as expected. I'll make a note to add something to the KB about the requirement that users have SELECT access to the SYSPACKSTMT table. I've not heard any other customers raise security concerns for the driver selecting from the SYSPACKSTMT table. The reason for this particular package validation methodology is so that the driver can check for the existence of all the packages required to support the various ODBC isolation levels. If the driver finds that any of the packages are missing, then it goes through the process of re-creating them so that it can support any isolation level set by the ODBC application at run time. I'm also not sure what the IBM CLI driver does to check for the packages and have only executed the bind using the Admin Assistant configuration tool. Regards, Brian

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