Oracle ODBC Driver, Release 3.0.2.1 for Windows

Dear All,
in reference to "Known Software Problems" section on the page ...
http://otn.oracle.com/products/rdb/htdocs/rdb_odbc/odbc_v3.0.2.1.html#known_soft
Problem number 3 is as follows:
3. The ODBC Driver detects "ROWID" or "DBKEY" values by their names.
If you rename such a column, as in the statement
SELECT LAST_NAME, DBKEY AS FOO FROM EMPLOYEES;
the driver will not recognize that the column is a DBKEY and will not
properly present the data for the application.
Does anyone know if this problem will be fixed in release V3.0.2.2
or when if not in 3.0.2.2 ?
Thanks in advance
Derek

Note that this problem applies to Oracle's ODBC driver for RDB, not to the Oracle ODBC driver. The former is used to connect to an RDB database, the latter to an Oracle database.
If you're interested in information about Oracle's ODBC driver for RDB, you probably want to contact technical support, as there aren't a whole lot of people in this forum using RDB. My recollection is that it's been quite some time since a new version of the RDB ODBC driver has been released-- I don't know if there is even any development being done on it.
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