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Infosys Relational ODBC Connection Creation For SQL Server Type Of Connection And Connection String
Entry In ODBC.INI Informatica Server File
Infosys
Relational ODBC Connection Creation For SQL

Server Type Of Connection And Connection String
September, 2013
INFOSYS LIMITED
Bangalore
Document Name Relational ODBC Connection creation for Version Rev.

SQL server type of connection and
1.0
Connection String entry in odbc.ini
Informatica server file
Authorized by: Hetal_Kariya@infosys.com Signature/: Hetal Kariya
Date: 05/09/2013
© 2013 Infosys Limited, India

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Author(s): Hetal Kariya
Date written (MM/DD/YY): 09/05/13
Project Details
Project(s) involved: CGEUITLZ
H/W Platform: Dell Machine
S/W Environment: Informatica Powercenter Worklfow Manager 9.0.1
Application Type: ETL Tool
Project Type: DW (FSI)
Target readers
Informatica tool developers and testers
Keywords
Informatica Powercenter Workflow Manager, Connection String, ODBC, SQL Server,
Odbc.ini

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Introduction:
The document provides a brief overview of the “creating a relational ODBC connection for
the Microsoft SQL server type of connection and the corresponding entry of the connection
string in informatica server file odbc.ini”. Also it shows how we can edit the permissions for
the created connection and give the permissions to a particular connection.
To explain the purpose and need of creating a relational ODBC connection for MS SQL
Server type of connection, let’s discuss a scenario.
Scenario:
We can create an ODBC type of connection for MS SQL server type of connection in the cane
when we are facing some issue with the SQL server type of connection. This ODBC
connection would be compatible to SQL server type of connection in the same manner.
In Informatica when the Microsoft SQL Server Connection is not supported by the OS on
which informatica is running, and the Relational connection created in the powercenter is of
type ‘Microsoft SQL server’, at that time on running the session which is using the MS SQL
server type of connection, the error encountered is:
“The server does not support the database type specified on this OS platform.”
At such time create an ‘ODBC’ type of connection in your workflow manager instead of ‘MS
SQL Server’ type of connection.
But this doesn’t mean that you need to change your DSN too. Create the same Data source
driver of type ‘SQL Server’ for importing tables from MS SQL server database.
Just create the ODBC type of connection in the workflow manager for running the session.
For creating the ODBC Relational Connection you would also need to make an entry of your
connection string in the informatica server file ‘odbc.ini’ in order to make the entry of your
MS SQL server database and the schema. Then using this connection string we can connect
to the SQL server database from our informatica client.
This ‘connection string name’ that we gave in odbc.ini server file will be used for creating
the connection in Powercenter workflow manager.

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Odbc.ini file content:
Below example shows the details of an entry of the connection string in odbc.ini server file.
[connection_string_dev]
Driver=/users/pmserver9/ODBC6.0/lib/DWsqls24.so
Description=DataDirect 6.0 SQL Server Native Wire Protocol
Address= Microsoft SQL server Name
AnsiNPW=Yes
ConnectionRetryCount=0
ConnectionRetryDelay=3
Database=Database Name
WorkArounds2=2
In the above details, you should be aware of some of the basic things that are required for
creating the connection string entry in an informatica server file odbc.ini
Connection_string_dev – This is the Name of your Connection. It can be any relevant

name. And this connection string name will be used while creating the connection in
informatica workflow manager as shown below in the subsequent snapshots.
Microsoft SQL Server Name – The name of the server on which the Database is
Database Name – Name of the database/schema to which you want to connect

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*Note – I have removed/made hidden the existing created relational connections and other
details for project security purpose.
Creating Relational Connection: ODBC
In Powercenter Workflow Manager:

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 In the next window select a Connection type as ‘ODBC’ from the dropdown and click
on ‘New’
 Fill in all the required details for creating the new connection in the following screen.
 Here in the below screenshot the ‘Connect String’ is the same name as that we have
given in the odbc.ini file. Use the same name as entered in the odbc.ini server file.

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 The new created connection can be seen in as below

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Giving Permissions to the connection:
 Click on the Permissions in above screen for the created connection.

Here add the user and give it the required permissions. Also we can change the owner of
the created connection to some generic user of our project using the change owner.

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 Click on Select other user and then choose the user from all the listed users as the
owner of the connection.

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In this way we can create an ODBC connection which would be compatible to a Microsoft
SQL server connection, when we face an issue with the MS SQL server connection or when it
is not been supported by the OS.
*Note – I have removed/made hidden the existing created relational connections and other
details for project security purpose.
Reference(s):-
1. Project Experience
2. www.informatica.com

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Infosys Relational ODBC Connection Creation For SQL Server Type Of Connection And Connection String

Entry In ODBC.INI Informatica Server File

Relational ODBC Connection Creation For SQL

Document Name Relational ODBC Connection creation for Version Rev.

© 2013 Infosys Limited, India

© 2013 Infosys Limited, India

Author(s): Hetal Kariya

Date written (MM/DD/YY): 09/05/13

© 2013 Infosys Limited, India

© 2013 Infosys Limited, India

Odbc.ini file content:

Connection_string_dev – This is the Name of your Connection. It can be any relevant

Database Name – Name of the database/schema to which you want to connect

© 2013 Infosys Limited, India

Creating Relational Connection: ODBC

In Powercenter Workflow Manager:

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 The new created connection can be seen in as below

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Giving Permissions to the connection:

 Click on the Permissions in above screen for the created connection.

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