Fixes: Describes the issues resolved since general availability.
Version 8.0.0
Enhancements
The driver has been enhanced to support fetching data from all the companies to which the user has access. Earlier, the driver supported fetching data only from the default company of the user. You can configure this functionality using the new Cross
Company (CrossCompany) connection option.*
Available: Driver version 8.0.0.1485 (B1227, U1070)-J2178
The installer program has been enhanced to support Azul Zulu JRE 11. As a result of this change, the installer has ended support for platforms that do not support Java SE 8 or higher. The installer supports the following operating systems after the
enhancement:
Windows 8.1 or higher
Windows Server 2012 RC2 or higher
UNIX/Linux: Any operating system on a machine using a JRE that is Java SE 8 or higher (LTS version), including Oracle JDK, OpenJDK, and IBM SDK (Java) distributions.
Important: These changes do not affect the operating system requirements of the driver.*
The driver has been enhanced to allow you to configure whether requests to web services timeout when the service is unresponsive. You can configure this functionality using the new Web Service Timeout (WSTimeout) connection option.*
Changed Behavior
The following connection options have been removed from the driver: Connection Retry Count (ConnectionRetryCount), Connection Retry Delay (ConnectionRetryDelay), LoginTimeout (LoginTimeout), and Query Timeout (QueryTimeout).*
Features
The driver supports SQL read-write access to the following Microsoft Dynamics 365 apps:
CRM apps
Customer Service
Field Service
Marketing
Project Service Automation
Sales
ERP apps
Finance
Retail
Supply Chain Management
Talent
The driver supports all ODBC Core and Level 1 functions and some Level 1 and Level 2 features.
The driver supports OAuth 2.0 authentication.
The driver supports NTLM authentication.
The driver supports the handling of large result sets with paging and the Fetch Size (FetchSize) connection option.
The driver supports optimizing insert, update, and delete operations with the Batch Update Chunk Size (BatchUpdateChunkSize) connection option.
On Windows platforms, the driver includes the DataDirect ODBC Driver Configuration Manager for quick configuration and testing of your driver. This Configuration Manager allows you to:
Configure data sources
Generate and edit connection URLs
Test connect data sources and connection URLs
Execute SQL commands for testing;
Fetch OAuth tokens
Access connection property descriptions and the full product documentation