John writes:
> I'm trying to find the driver for JDBC --

> Second Question: We have the PowerPatch 1 tape that we never installed.
> Is the JDBC driver on that tape? (or do I need to look for, or request,
> a Subsys tape?)

The JDBC driver files (@.JDBC.SYS) are on the SUBSYS tape in association
with the IMAGE/SQL product (but not plain Turbo Image, so if you never
upgraded to IMAGE/SQL you may be out of luck) and/or the ALLBASE/SQL
product.  So yes, you need a SUBSYS tape for something 6.0 Express 1 or
later.

> Third Question: If  the JDBC driver is on that PowerPatch 1 tape, can I
> install it on a system that's currently running PowerPatch 2, or will it
> hose my system?

If you find a tape with the files on it, you can probably just :RESTORE
@.JDBC.SYS to get the files onto the system.  I believe JDBC is pretty much
independent.  I don't know if Express 2 has a newer version of JDBC than
Express 1, but chances are it's the same version.

> Fourth (and final) Question: Would, perchance, the JDBC driver be
> available somewhere as a download that I could install without having to
> worry about the tape?

Because of the fact that many people have found themselves in the same
situation you are in, and many people did not get a SUBSYS tape with 6.0
Express 1 when they apparently should have, I have been suggesting (nudge,
nudge) that HP put JDBC up on Jazz, but they have expressed the concern that
people will download it and run it on "unsupported" MPE releases which they
don't want to happen.

> The communicator article indicates that the driver
> is distributed as an HFS archive, and that there is a job that I can
> stream from JDBC.SYS that will install all of the needed files from that
> archive.

Yes.  Once you get the files in JDBC.SYS that is.  That's why you can get
away with simply restoring the JDBC.SYS files off the SUBSYS tape.  The
actual install is done by a job stream that extracts from an archive file.
These two files plus a README file are, I believe, the sole contents of the
JDBC.SYS group.

Gavin