Connecting Excel 2010 64 bit on Windows 7 64 bit to Oracle 11gR2 on Linux

Using:
Excel 2010 64 bit
Windows 7 64 bit
Oracle instant client 11.2.0.1 64 bit
connecting to Oracle 11gR2 64 bit on Linux 5.8 64 bit
I have created a User DSN in Windows called "NITRO Oracle 11gR2 DB" using the Oracle 64 bit instant client driver 11.2.0.1. Configured as so
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Connection test is successful.
In Excel 2010, I go to Data ribbon, From Data Connection Wizard
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I then choose Other/Advanced, and then Oracle Provider for OLE DB.
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I click next and then put in the data source, user name and password and click test, and it fails with Micosoft Data Link Error. http://i.imgur.com/zuv41.png
Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

12154 means the client couldn't resolve what you filled in for Data Source. What did you fill in for Data Source when configuring the OLEDB connection? It looks like "nitro" should be the correct thing to fill in, based on your statement that the ODBC DSN you configured works with it.
Greg

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JDN wrote:
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Some Smart View Functions Do Not Work in Excel 2010 64-bit. [ID 1463814.1]
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Symptoms
Cause
Solution
References
Applies to:
Hyperion Financial Management - Version 11.1.2.2.000 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Symptoms
When using Smart View (SV) with Microsoft Office 2010 SP1 some SV functions do not work or cause Excel application to crash.
Cause
In 64-bit versions of Excel 2010 SP1, the presence of Smart View functions may cause Excel to terminate abruptly and may prevent Copy Data Point and Paste Data Point functions from working. This has been identified as a defect in Microsoft product.
Solution
Use the 32-bit version of Smart View until Microsoft issues fix for their 64-bit Office products.
References
@ BUG:13606492 - USING HSSETVALUE FUNCTION CAUSES EXCEL CRASH
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Thanks man it worked for me.
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I have tried to use an excel 2003 connection to connect to a copy of the file with a modified extension of .xls and that didn't work.
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The manual fix for this problem is to re-register MSCOMCTL.OCX. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Open an administrative-level command prompt. The command prompt MUST be on the administrative level for this to work. Click START, and type RUN in the run command line. On Windows Vista and Windows 7 you will see CMD.EXE appear in the quick search list.
Right click CMD.EXE and left click Run As Administrator. A black command prompt opens. On Windows XP, there is no built-in run-as-admin, but you can use the run as menu option (or runas command line) to execute an admin command from a Limited User Account.
2. If on a 64-bit machine, type the following:
regsvr32.exe /u C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MSCOMCTL.OCX
Hit ENTER
then type
regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\SysWOW64\MSCOMCTL.OCX
If on a 32-bit machine, type the following:
regsvr32.exe /u C:\Windows\System32\MSCOMCTL.OCX
Hit ENTER
then type
regsvr32.exe C:\Windows\System32\MSCOMCTL.OCX
Your Excel BAM Addin should work again after doing this.
Reference:
http://biztalkconnect.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/bam-add-in-excel-issue-unspecified.html
http://blogs.technet.com/b/the_microsoft_excel_support_team_blog/archive/2012/08/15/quot-unspecified-automation-error-quot-after-applying-ms12-060.aspx
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What version of Essbase Excel add-in support 64 bit Windows 7 on our PC?

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Thanks John and Jasmine.
John,
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Hi,
Thanks for posting in MSDN forum.
This forum is discussing developing issues using English. To get more effective response, I suggest that you translate it using English.
In addition, it seem the issue relative to the dialog in Excel, however I am not able to understand it exactly.
As far as I know, we can use
Application.Dialogs to show the build-in dialog in Excel. Also here are some useful links about this topic:
Built-In Dialog Box Argument Lists
How to: Create a Custom Dialog Box
Displaying a Custom Dialog Box
Hope it is helpful.
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