Re: ODBC drivers/powermac/connection string

John,

OpenLink Software is shipping High-Performance 68K or Native PPC (Code Fragment Manager Based) ODBC Drivers for MacOS that support Sybase, simply visit:
http://www.openlinksw.com

to download and evaluate free of charge.

Kingsley Idehen

John Greene <greene_at_cs.umass.edu> wrote in article <greene-ya023480000204971552400001_at_rcfnews.cs.umass.edu>...
>
> Hi --
>
> I have a question that is similar to some of the threads going around
 about
> ODBC drivers, the powermac, and connecting to an ORACLE database. The
 question
> is basically a two-parter. Any help would be appreciated.....
>
> We just got the latest ODBC driver pack for Macintosh and are having
 some
> problems.
>
> > Rick Kopnisky wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if there are ODBC drivers available for the Power
 Mac?
> > > Sybase told me to call Intersolv. Intersolv says that the ODBC
 drivers
> > > for the Power Mac are still months away. Has anyone heard of anyone
> > > besides Intersolv making a Mac Power PC ODBC driver for Sybase?
> >
> > The Intersolv drivers do seem to work on Power Macs (at least with
> > FoxPro/Mac 2.6, though Visual FoxPro will not work with their drivers).
> > The real ones have been months away since I last checked last summer.
> > It is disturbing that Sybase has no real ODBC PowerMac support.
> >
>
> Let me start by saying, we had been using an older ODBC driver pack to
 allow
> FoxPro 2.6 on the Mac talk to an Oracle server... We did this on a
 PowerMac
> even though Intersolv claims that it's "Unsupported". I have developed
 a
> bunch of applications on Fox -- they all worked. No problem.
>
> Recently, we upgraded the Oracle Server... it's now 7.3.2.2.0 running on
 an
> alpha. I recently installed the latest Oracle on the mac (2.3) and the
 NetTest
> application works fine -- it can see the Oracle server, and I can login.
 In its
> own words, "Your SQL*Net setup appears to be in working order". I can
 run
> queries and all that jazz
>
> I was told that version 7.3.2.2 of Oracle on the Alpa required a later
 version
> of the ODBC drivers... this was confirmed when all of my Fox applications
 broke
> and the ODBC connection failed from within FoxPro.
>
> So... we ordered the latest ODBC pack from Intersolv.... but
>
> 1) I cannot get the ODBC test application to connect to the Oracle
 server.
> It comes up with an empty dialog box with an OK button. I know the
> "connection string" method has changed with the new Oracle, but
 everything
> I try produces the same error, an empty dialog.
>
> 2) Intersolv tech. support refuses to help me because I'm using a
 PowerMac
> instead of a 68k based Mac. This is crap because we've been using
 Power
> Macs and Open Transport w/ Oracle and ODBC 1.1 for over a year. It
 would
> be an understatement to say that I'm dissatisfied with Intersolv right
> now.
>
> I am convinced that this problem has nothing to do with the PowerMac or
 Open
> Transport. My real question is: #1 WHAT IS THE ORACLE SERVER LOOOKING
 FOR IN
> THE CONNECTION STRING FROM ODBC? #2 HAS ANYONE HAD SUCCESS WITH THIS
 SETUP?
>
> Can anyone help me with this madness? Thanks in advance....
>
> --
> .
> Qapla', . ' John Greene - Associate Software Specialist
> . * . Computer Science Computing Facility - UMass
> ` <http://www.cs.umass.edu/~greene/>
> -jg LET'S GO FLYERS! (yeP! Keyboardist)
>
Received on Thu Apr 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST