Ingres 9.2 Migration Guide - Actian

OpenAPI EnhancementsOpenAPI EnhancementsEnvironment handles were added to OpenAPI. Environment handles allowgreater application control over configuration of the OpenAPI runtimeenvironment. OpenAPI version 2 was added to indicate support forenvironment handles.Extensions were made to the following OpenAPI functions to supportenvironment handles:• IIapi_initialize() to allocate environment handles• IIapi_connect() to open connections using environment settingsThree new environment handle associated functions were added:• IIapi_setEnvParam() for setting environment configuration parameters• IIapi_formatData() for converting data values relative to environmentsettings• IIapi_releaseEnv() to release environment handle resourcesAlso added is the function IIapi_abort() to forcefully shut down connectionsunder error conditions.Features Introduced in Ingres II 2.5 223