Trouble creating a Netezza datasource from SharePoint Designer 2010 using OLEDB

Question

I am trying to create a data source in SharePoint Designer 2010 for connecting to a Netezza database via OLEDB.  If I choose the Microsoft .NET Data Provider for OLEDB and give it the server name, username, and password, I get the following connection
error:
Server Error: An error occurred while retrieving the list of Databases from nzprod-vip: The data retrieval service encounterd an error during connection to the data source. Contact the server administrator for more information.
(The server administrator had no additional information.)
 If I use a custom connection string, specifying the Netezza OLEDB provider,  whose format looks like this (actual database and credentials omitted):
Provider=NZOLEDB;Password=...;User ID=...;
Data Source=...;Initial Catalog=...;
Persist Security Info=True;Port=5480;Logging Level=0;Log Path=nzconnect.log; Optimize for ASCII=True;
I get the following connection error:
Server Error: An error occurred while retrieving the list of Databases from nzprod-vip: The Web server cannot connect to the specified data source because the query may contain errors, the data source may be unavailable or configured improperly, or you Web
site is behind a proxy server or firewall.
If your Web site is behind a proxy server or firewall, verify that your server administrator has configured the Data Retrieval Services HTTP proxy server setting for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.
(We are not behind a proxy server or firewall.)
The NZOLEDB provider is loaded on the SharePoint server running the SharePoint Data Retrieval Service. I can successfully connect to the Netezza database if I login directly to the SharePoint server and run a Netezza database
browser that connects via NZOLEDB using the same parameters that are in custom connection string I tried through SharePoint Designer.
Our SharePoint server configuration has one server for the application services (including the Data Retrieval Service) and two other servers running just SharePoint web services.   (We actually loaded the NZOLEDB driver on all three servers for
good measure, though we think the server running the Data Retrieval Service would be right one.)
We do not think SharePoint privileges are a factor, since we had our SharePoint administrator try to connect while running with full access privileges.
Any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Ronald,
i am not quite sure how the OLEDB connect to the netezza, as i heard they also have their own OLEDB, as you mentioned.
but please have a check this link, perhaps it may help to set up OLEDB in sharepoint designer
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-designer-help/add-a-database-as-a-data-source-HA010355745.aspx
perhaps this link may help you in some way:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/0e4b5e49-49ef-4e6b-9ab8-ac954ab8d0be/how-do-i-add-c-to-webpage-in-sharepoint-designer?forum=sharepointcustomizationlegacy
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9ac4a7af-6e3f-41d8-8b8e-14b707697e06/c-code-to-connect-netezza-using-oledb-provider?forum=sqlintegrationservices
http://www.rafael-salas.com/2010/06/ssis-and-netezza-loading-data-using-ole.html#!/2010/06/ssis-and-netezza-loading-data-using-ole.html
Regards,
Aries
Microsoft Online Community Support
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