UODBC

LISTSERV supports unixODBC and MySQL for use with the DBMS features of LISTSERV. The prerequisite for this support is that unixODBC must be installed on the Unix machine that is running LISTSERV.

The LISTSERV implementation is similar to that for ODBC and CLI, except that the prefixes are UODBC_*. You define UODBC_DSN and so on in your configuration, and you use DBMS= UODBC or just DBMS= Yes in your lists and Distribute jobs. For instance, the site configuration for a unixODBC datasource called GREEN might look like this:

UODBC_DSN="green"
UODBC_UID="listserv"
UODBC_AUTH="fiatlux"
export UODBC_DSN UODBC_UID UODBC_AUTH

It is possible to connect to all kinds of databases (as opposed to MySQL only) using unixODBC, but L-Soft has introduced this interface primarily to work with MySQL and does not formally support other DBMS products accessed via unixODBC.

For more information, see: LISTSERV Advanced Topics Manual.



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