Configuring ODBC

There are no ODBC drivers provided with your EAServer software. Earlier versions of EAServer included the Merant DataDirect ODBC drivers. To install and configure ODBC drivers, refer to your ODBC documentation and your database client software documentation.

If you have Merant DataDirect software, you can still use it with EAServer 6.0.2. Follow the Merant documentation to install and set up your Merant ODBC driver. You can set any DataDirect environment settings globally using your login shell scripts, or locally in EAServer using the local-setenv.sh script file. For example, a typical ODBC entry in your $DJC_HOME/bin/local-setenv.sh file looks like this:

ODBC=<path_to_your_Data_Direct_Software>
ODBCINI=$ODBC/odbc.ini
export ODBC
export ODBCINI

Using ODBC from other client applications

If you have an ODBC client that uses the ODBC driver manager shipped with EAServer, make sure that the client sets the ODBCINI environment variable to the odbc.ini file—otherwise, the driver manager gets the data source entries from the $HOME/odbc.ini file, if one exists.