Unable to configure ODBC data source through odi

Hi,
Let me explain the architecture first.
We have three machines
1. OpenVMS machine on which connx server is running for RMS files, say SRC
2. Windows machine on which ODI Data Studio 11.1.1, Say WRKSTN, This has connx client installed
3. Target is HP-UX on which SYBASE is running, say TRGT. On target we have installed connx client and ODI Stand alone agent and agnt01 is the name of the agent that is running
My Requirement is,
I need to pull the data from SRC and load it into TRGT using the ODI agent agnt01, through ODBC data connectivity.
If i configure DSN on my WRKSTN they the agnt01 is unable to identify. If i configure a DSN on HP-UX machine then i am not able to specify that in ODI Sun odbc: Jdbc bridge driver.
Kindly help me as to how i can resolve this
Thanks,
Rajesh H

Configuring DSN on windows workstation would not help as the agent is not running on that machine. The DSN has to be configured on the machine where the agent is running on which you want to execute the flow. What error are you getting on trying to specify the DSN name on HPUX in the data server jdbc url?

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> I have several ODBC data sources to a mainframe and want
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> up. The path problem usually only lasts a minute or two,
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> through the affected data sources continue to raise
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