Specifying Application IDs Explicitly

ODBC client applications can identify themselves explicitly to the SequeLink service in any of the following ways:

Specifying the application ID in the ODBC connection string that is passed to SQLDriverConnect. For example:

....;APPID=MyAppID;

or

....;ApplicationID=MyAppID;

where MyAppID is the application ID.

Specifying the application ID using SQLSetConnectAttr. Immediately after each call to SQLConnect or SQLDriverConnect connecting to the ODBC Client, call SQLSetConnectAttr as shown:

SQLSetConnectAttr(hdbc, 1053, "myAppId", SQL_NTS)

where myAppId is the application ID.

The SQLSetConnectAttr is defined in sql.h. If an incorrect application ID is specified, the SQLSetConnectAttr fails and all subsequent SQL statements fail.