Transaction isolation levels

Informix® ODBC Driver supports three transaction isolation levels for the Informix database server.

The following table lists the transaction isolation levels that Informix ODBC Driver supports for the Informix database server.
Database servers Transaction isolation levels
HCL Informix
  • SQL_TXN_READ_COMMITTED
  • SQL_TXN_READ_UNCOMMITTED
  • SQL_TXN_SERIALIZABLE

The default transaction isolation level is SQL_TXN_READ_COMMITTED. To change the transaction isolation level, call SQLSetConnectOption() with an fOption value of SQL_TXN_ISOLATION.

For more information about transaction isolation levels, see the SQL_DEFAULT_TXN_ISOLATION and SQL_TXN_ISOLATION_OPTION descriptions in the Informix ODBC Driver Programmer's Manual.