Unable to connect Informatica on Sun Solaris to a SQL Server datasource

Question

Background*
We have a fully operational OBIEE with OBIA Apps infrastructure running with Informatica PC8.6 ETL suite. Informatica services are running on a Sun Solaris 64 bit platform.
We currently extract data from two Oracle EBS 11.5.10 sources. Now we are trying to extract data from a new MS SQL Server 2000 source into the OBAW.
Problem*
I'm trying the use the native ODBC 5.2 Data Direct driver to connect the the data source.
I've gone through and completed the 9 steps of the 'Connecting to an ODBC Data Source' chapter in Informatica on our Solaris Unix box.
I've made the following changes to the *.profile*
# ODBC HOME
ODBC_HOME=/oracle/Informatica/PowerCenter8.6.0/ODBC5.2
export ODBC_HOME
ODBC_INI=/oracle/Informatica/PowerCenter8.6.0/ODBC5.2/odbc.ini
export ODBC_INI
PATH=${PATH}:$ODBC_HOME/bin
export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:$ODBCHOME/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
I've also made changes to the odbc.ini file as suggested:
[MSS_DB]
Driver=/oracle/Informatica/PowerCenter8.6.0/ODBC5.2/lib/DWmsss22.so
Description=DataDirect 5.2 SQL Server Wire Protocol
Address=MssServer.xxx.co.uk,1433
AlternateServers=
AnsiNPW=Yes
ConnectionRetryCount=0
ConnectionRetryDelay=3
Database=MIS_Report_DB
LoadBalancing=0
LogonID=myuser
Password=mypwd
QuotedId=No
ReportCodePageConversionErrors=0
InstallDir=/oracle/Informatica/PowerCenter8.6.0/ODBC5.2
I've created the Connection--> Relational --> ODBC connection on Workflow Manager
I've specified the username/pwd and connect string MssServer.xxx.co.uk@MIS_Report_DB. I've called it exactly the same as MSS_DB specified in the odbc.ini
When I run the workflow. It fails but doesn't throw up any error/error code in the session log. The last 3 lines of the Session Log below and then it just bombs out within 5 secs.
PETL_24006 : Starting data movement.
TM_6660 : Total Buffer Pool size is 4234808 bytes and Block size is 468312 bytes.
DBG_21438 : Reader: Source is [MssServer.xxx.co.uk], user [myuser]
If you ping from the Unix server it says 'MssServer.xxx.co.uk is alive'
Can anyone suggest what we need to do different or spot something obvious?
Edited by: bebedi123 on 13-Apr-2010 09:43

Answer 1

user00726 wrote:
i am able to create files in /tmp
$ pwd
/tmp
$ touch test
$ ls -l
total 64
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        194 May 27 14:20 OraInstall2009-05-27_02-20
-02PM
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other        194 May 27 14:35 OraInstall2009-05-27_02-35
-06PM
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        445 May 27 14:38 OraInstall2009-05-27_02-38
-48PM
-rw-rw-r--   1 root     sys         6644 May 27 14:00 ps_data
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   dba            0 May 27 16:04 test
$and i have also removed /tmp_dir_n8ai9b files
but still there is a problemYou have root as owner of subdirectories (e.g. OraInstall2009-05-27_02-38-48PM) and not oracle:
- do you install as root now?
- or make the directories writable for oracle, too.The write flag is missing (something like chmod -R a+w OraInstall2009-05-27_02-38-48PM)
Edited by: TanteKaethe on May 28, 2009 9:54 AM