DG4ODBC adds black spaces after every character

Question

I am trying to set up HS using Oracle 10.2.0.5 on RHEL5 (64 bit), FreeTDS, and MS SQL Server.
The ODBC Driver works fine:
[oracle@phsbe1pr ~]$ isql sfasql_freetds_dsn sqlSinfoOne ***
| Connected! |
| |
| sql-statement |
| help [tablename] |
| quit |
| |
SQL> select name, len( name ) from sys.objects where object_id < 20 ;
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| name | |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| sysrscols | 9 |
| sysrowsets | 10 |
| sysallocunits | 13 |
| sysfiles1 | 9 |
| syspriorities | 13 |
| sysfgfrag | 9 |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
SQLRowCount returns 6
6 rows fetched
SQL> quit
[oracle@phsbe1pr ~]$
[oracle@phsbe1pr ~]$ tsql -S SFASQL_FreeTDSName -U sqlSinfoOne -P ***
locale is "en_US.UTF-8"
locale charset is "UTF-8"
using default charset "UTF-8"
1> select name, len( name ) from sys.objects where object_id < 20
2> order by 1
3> go
name
sysallocunits 13
sysfgfrag 9
sysfiles1 9
syspriorities 13
sysrowsets 10
sysrscols 9
(6 rows affected)
1> exit
[oracle@phsbe1pr ~]$
But when I use the dblink i got every string doubled with spaces after every char:
[oracle@phsbe1pr ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on Mon Jul 23 17:22:25 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
SQL> set linesize 120
SQL> column name format a40
SQL> select "name", length ( "name" )
2 from sys.objects@sfasql_link
3 where "object_id" < 20
4 order by 1
5 /
name LENGTH("NAME")
s y s a l l o c u n i t s 26
s y s f g f r a g 18
s y s f i l e s 1 18
s y s p r i o r i t i e s 26
s y s r o w s e t s 20
s y s r s c o l s 18
6 rows selected.
SQL>
What can I do ?
Mi init.ora is:
HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO = SFASQL_DSN
HS_FDS_SHAREABLE_NAME = /usr/lib64/libodbc.so
HS_FDS_TRACE_LEVEL = off
HS_FDS_TRACE_FILE_NAME=/tmp/odbc_hs_sfa.trc
HS_FDS_SQLLEN_INTERPRETATION = 32
set ODBCINI=/etc/odbc.ini
adn odbc.ini contains:
[SFASQL_DSN]
Description = sqlserver
Driver = FreeTDS
# Servername = SFASQL_FreeTDSName
Server = phsspbe.perfumeholding.intra
Address = 172.17.0.45
Port = 1433
Database = SFA_INTERSCAMBIO
TDS_Version = 8.0
Language = us_english
TextSize = 1999
PacketSize = 1470
ClientCharset = ISO-8859-1
DumpFile = /tmp/odbc_sfasql_dsn.log
DumpFileAppend = Yes
DebugFlags =
Encryption = off
#Trace = Yes
#TraceFile = /tmp/odbc_sfasql_dsn.trc
Thank you for every answer!
Andrea

Answer 1

1. Please add to the gateway init file HS_NLS_NCHAR=UCS2
Then test again with a new SQL*Plus session.
When it continues to fail, what's the character set of the Oracle database being used and how did you set the NLS_LANG in your environment?