Ingres ODBC connectivity from AIX

Post Author: iwakley
CA Forum: Data Integration
We were using BODI 11.5.1.5 with DataDirect Connect V5.1 and the Ingres 32bit ODBC driver which was all working ok.
To get over a problem with handling "smart quote" characters (as inserted by MS Word/Excel) from a SQL Server data source in an Oracle UTF8 destination we had to upgrade to BODI 11.7.3.2 and DataDirect Connect64 V5.2. We have installed the Ingres 64bit ODBC driver and updated the odbc.ini to reference the 64bit driver rather than the 32bit version but this doesn't work. Using the Ingres tools we can test ODBC connectivity to the database and this all seems to be working. The problem seems to be that the DataDirect Connect64 ODBC Driver Manager is unable to load the Ingres 64bit ODBC driver. Has anyone out there managed to get this working?

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