How to setup ODBC Driver

[SPYO_O]

Hello everybody!!
I'm newby on progress, I've installed a version TRIAL of Progress 10 and need to connect via ODBC driver.

I don't know what information I should to put on the ODBC configuration screen,

DataSourceName: what is my datasource name???
Description Name:
HostName:
Port Number: what is my port number??
DatabaseName: What is my database name?
UserID:

Can you help me to get all information to configure my progress ODBC connections?

Best regards
Pedro

 

[RealHeavyDude]

Hello Pedro,

• DataSourceName: This is the name under which you will find the ODBC data source in the ODBC administrator of Windows
• Description Name: This is a description of your choice
• HostName: If the database resides on the same machine it could be localhost otherwise you need to contact the DBA to get the name/IP adress of the host machine
• Port Number: You need to contact the DBA to get the IP Port/Service name where the database broker is listening
• DatabaseName: That would be the database file name without any path specification and the .db extension
• UserID: If You don't know the user - then how should we?

HTH, RealHeavyDude.