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Message Prefixes

Connecting to a mainframe server involves many layers of software. The ODBC error messages include identifiers that indicate where an error originates. Messages from the CA Datacom/DB ODBC driver are prefixed with [CA][ODBC CA Datacom/DB Driver]. The first part of the prefix indicates the vendor of the ODBC driver, for example, CA. The next part of the prefix indicates that the driver code issued the error message.

If the error was generated by the Microsoft ODBC Driver Manager, the prefix would have been [Microsoft][ODBC DLL].

Messages from the CA Datacom/DB mainframe server or from its workstation-resident interface module, or from the mainframe Multi-User Facility, are prefixed with [CA][CA Datacom/DB ODBC Driver][CA Datacom /DB]. This prefix indicates that the error was reported by the data source, not the Driver Manager or the Driver.