Re: oracle odbc driver for rdb

There is a pull-down option on the protocol which gives TCP/IP as the default option.

Just click on the down arrow and choose DECnet.

It should work fine !.

regards,
Guus van de Sande

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Peter,

You may want to post this to comp.databases.rdb (actually, I've
cross-posted this answer there; however, you may want to monitor that
newsgroup for your answer).

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Peter Tarbaj wrote in message ...


>Hi Folks,

>

>I need some help setting up an oracle odbc driver for rdb. The situation

>is as follows:

>

>We have a VAX system with OpenVMS 6.2 installed. There are Rdb databases

>which we would like to access from PCs running MS Windows NT from Excel.

>SQLSRV$SRV is running on our VAX/VMS system. The network is based on

>Digital Pathworks (DECNet). There is no TCP/IP installed. So I installed

>the ODBC driver from Oracle on my NT box. (BTW Pathworks32 V7.0A is

>installed on the NT system.) I can access the SQL server and the rdb

>database on the VMS system from Oracle's test query (which came with the

>ODBC driver package) via DECNet, but when I try it from MS Query (part

>of MS Office97) it wont work for me. The ODBC driver for Rdb wants to

>use TCP/IP, and of course cannot find the VMS system which is only

>accessible via DECNet.

>So I need help from someone who experienced such problems before how to

>set up the driver to use DECNet and not TCP/IP. It is annoying that when

>I use the Oracle test query it asks about the transport protocol, and

>when I use this MS thingy it only asks the server name and stuff like

>that and I cannot set the transport protocol to DECNet.

>Please answer in private email to one of the following addresses:

>

>tarby_at_freeside.elte.hu

>tarby_at_lord.banki.hu

>

>Thank you in advance.

>

>Bye!

>

>Peter Tarbaj

>

>

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