6	The Informix Wire Protocol Driver

The DataDirect Connect for ODBC and DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC Informix Wire Protocol driver (the Informix Wire Protocol driver) each support multiple connections to the following Informix database servers:

■	Informix Dynamic Server 11.0, 11.5, 11.7

■	Informix Dynamic Server 10.0

■	Informix Dynamic Server 9.2, 9.3, 9.4

The Informix Wire Protocol driver is supported in the Windows, UNIX, and Linux environments. See “Environment-Specific Information” for detailed information about the environments supported by this driver.

Refer to the readme file shipped with your DataDirect product for the file name of the Informix Wire Protocol driver.

NOTE: The Informix Wire Protocol driver does not require any Informix client software. Progress DataDirect also provides an Informix client-based driver that can access earlier versions of Informix databases. See “The Informix Driver” for details.