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Support functions for translated procedures to call upon when needed. For
example, an attempt by a translated procedure that called Sybase’s
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE is replaced by a call back into the IBM DB2 SSacSA
translation routines to perform a translation and execution of the SQL
statement.
Support functions for the client driver to emulate certain Sybase-specific API
calls, such as reading and writing LOBs (Large Objects).
Support functions for some conversions that DB2 does not support, but
Sybase supports.
Support functions to emulate some of the Sybase ASE functions whose
equivalents are not available in DB2 (string manipulation functions, and so
on). The majority of such functions are not external routines ...