Actian Corporation will drop support for obsolete network protocol drivers in a future major release of Ingres. These protocols are no longer used and in many cases are unsupportable. A newer version of some of the drivers is available. These changes do not affect the current or any past release of Ingres.

If a dropped protocol (listed in next section) is used in your environment, contact Actian Support to identify a migration plan.

One protocol, wintcp on Windows, has been deprecated since Ingres 9.3. “Deprecation” means that the protocol is still available but receives no enhancements and minimal maintenance. The newer driver (tcp_ip in this case) should be used instead. “Dropped” means that the protocol will no longer be available. Beginning with Ingres 9.3, the protocol wintcp has been upgraded automatically to tcp_ip during installation. Other dropped protocols must be changed manually.