Databases/Non-Oracle

Hi All
Kindly suggest how I can use any non oracle database(Sybase) as Source.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Anurag S

Here is a brief note about diferent sources including sybase
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31080_01/doc/owb.102/b28223/concept_integrate_import.htm
Oracle Heterogeneous Services
Warehouse Builder communicates with non-Oracle systems using Oracle Database Heterogeneous Services and a complementary agent. Heterogeneous Services make a non-Oracle system appear as a remote Oracle Database server. The agent can be an Oracle Transparent Gateway or the generic connectivity agent included with Oracle Database.
A transparent gateway agent is a system-specific source. For example, for a Sybase data source, the agent is a Sybase-specific transparent gateway. You must install and configure this agent to support the communication between the two systems.
Generic connectivity is intended for low-end data integration solutions and the transfer of data is subject to the rules of specific ODBC or OLE DB drivers installed on the client machine. In this case, you do not need to purchase a separate transparent gateway; you can use the generic connectivity agent included with the Oracle Database server. You must still create and customize an initialization file for your generic connectivity agent.
For additional information on distributed processing systems, see Oracle Database Distributed Database Systems.

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Greetings!
I have created a HS to a MySQL server and from SQL> this works fine as a dblink
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identified by "<pwd>"
using 'mysqlSORDdev_cmdb';
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'FOO'
foo
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3) I edit (and rename) the resulting Location to MYSQL_HS_LOCATION and use:
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8) Port 1521
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I know the user/name password are correct as they're the same I use when creating the dblink via SQL....
Should I not use ODBC? Did I bump my head somewhere?
Any help here would be great.
Thanks in advance,
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You have to do the following steps:
1) In "Design Center", select Databases->Non-Oracle->ODBC->"new" (via right click)
2) Name the Module
3) Type Database Link
4) From Location: select the location of the database you have configured the databse link.
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Good day,
i'm working on a windows 32 bit machine,i have Oracle database , OWB 11.2.0.1 installed on it
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i've tested the connection from SQLPLUS and it's working perfectly
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Message was edited by:
Bart Kummel

Hi all,
I'm trying to subclass <tt>DatabasePlatform</tt> to add pagination support for the AS/400 DB2 database of my customer. To be fair, it is not going very well so far.
The first problem is, the query Chris found by googling (Re: Pagination support for non-Oracle databases?), does not work for AS/400s version of DB2. In fact, although it is called "DB2", the database on the AS/400 system is a whole other database than the "normal" DB2 database that runs on Windows and *nix. The AS/400 DB2 simply does not have a "ROW_NEXT" function.
Another option would be to use the <b>row_number() over()</b> mehtod. But, as can be read here, this function is only available from version V5R4 of OS/400. And guess what? We're stuck on V5R3 at this client. (We cannot upgrade, because there's an application in use that's written in Delphi and IBM dropped the Delphi binding from V5R4...)
So I pretty much ran out of options. On the mailing list I linked to above, someone mentions the option to make a sort of stored procedure that generates a row count number. An example of how to do this can be found here. I implemented it, and ended up with this code:
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import java.sql.PreparedStatement;
import java.sql.ResultSet;
import java.sql.SQLException;
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import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.databaseaccess.DatabaseCall;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.expressions.ExpressionSQLPrinter;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.expressions.SQLSelectStatement;
import org.eclipse.persistence.internal.sessions.AbstractSession;
import org.eclipse.persistence.logging.SessionLog;
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import org.eclipse.persistence.sessions.SessionProfiler;
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12282,
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