ODBC Installation

You must have installed and configured ODBC (Windows) or a supported ODBC driver manager (UNIX) before you install Acu4GL for ODBC. These products are not provided by Micro Focus, but may have been installed alongside any ODBC drivers or data sources that you have on your system. For example, if you have installed Microsoft Access on your computer, the Access drivers and ODBC may have been automatically installed.

Windows:

Follow these steps to determine whether you already have ODBC:

Open the Windows control panel.
Double-click the Administrative Tools icon, then select Data Sources (ODBC). (On older versions of Windows, select the 32-bit ODBC icon directly from the control panel.)
The ODBC Data Source Administrator dialog box is displayed, showing all the data sources currently configured for your system.

If the ODBC icon is not in your control panel, ODBC is probably not installed on your system. To install ODBC on your system, you have two options:
- Buy an ODBC driver from a driver or database vendor and install it. ODBC is installed automatically.
- Buy and install a Windows-based ODBC data source. The ODBC driver and ODBC will be one of the install options.

UNIX:

Note: The use of a driver manager is only supported on a shared libraries build of the extend Interoperability Suite.

The following supported ODBC driver managers are:

unixODBC (www.unixodbc.org)
DataDirect (www.progress.com)
iODBC (www.iodbc.org)

You need to configure the driver manager as per the vendor's instructions, and then when correctly configured, you need to ensure that the lib directory of the driver manager, and the lib sub-directory of your product installation directory is included in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.