Product specifications

A set of data access drivers are installed when you install the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence

platform. You can use these data access drivers to create connections to databases. They are located

in the connectionserver-install-dir\connectionServer\drivers\lib32 or connection

server-install-dir\connectionServer\drivers\lib64 directory.

SAP BusinessObjects software also includes configuration files for using ODBC drivers to access your

databases. To use these drivers, you do the following:

Obtain the ODBC driver software from your database supplier.

Modify the supplied configuration files.

For an up-to-date list of supported ODBC drivers, check the SAP Service Marketplace at http://ser

vice.sap.com/bosap-support, or contact your SAP representative.

Note:

The Data Access layer provides the Generic ODBC connectivity to create a connection to a data source

that the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform does not support explicitly.

About generic ODBC connections on UNIX

The Microsoft Windows operating system comes with a standard ODBC driver manager. In contrast,

UNIX does not provide any standard way to manage drivers. SAP BusinessObjects software allows

you to use either DataDirect or unixODBC driver managers for generic ODBC connections on UNIX.

Before creating a generic ODBC connection on UNIX for a specific database, you must identify the

following:

• the version of the ODBC driver

• if the driver is able to work with DataDirect driver manager or unixODBC

You then modify the supplied configuration files and configure the relevant data source to enable the

connection.

Note:

You can configure only one connection through a generic ODBC implementation.