ODBC driver - Progress 7.3E

[asbjorne]

I'm desperatly looking for a odbc driver for Progress 7.3E. I want to export data to an oracle db. Anyone know where I can find it?

If anyone has an alternative solution, please don't hesitate to reply.

Kind regards,
Asbjorn

 

[TomBascom]

Do you have a running Progress 7.3 database?

If you have at least a "query" license then you may be better off simply exporting the data to ascii files.

 

[asbjorne]

Thank you for the reply.

I have a running 7.3E database and an only query licence. I've tried to run some scripts, but since they are uncompiled they will not run.

Any suggestions how I can extract all the data to ascii?

I've never used progress before this project, so any clues to what to do and how to do it will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Girish Girigowd]

Have you tried any of the Meriant drivers that are available? Also datadirect had a few generic drivers, not sure if they support 7.3E.

 

[asbjorne]

Trying to locate both the merant driver and the datadirect 4.0 driver without any luck. Do you know where I can get them? Can only find newer drivers (without progress 7.x support..)

I'm also trying to export the data to ascii files. I have scripts for it, but can't compile them due to only query licence. I don't have Xcode either, so haven't been able to benefit of the encrypt/compile "workaround".

I also tried running data administration with -rx option, but export options are still greyed out.

 

[Girish Girigowd]

Did you try datadirect? They have a trial download for ODBC connections, not sure if it will work with 7.1E. When you say query only version, do you mean you cannot create any 4GL/SQL procedures to export data?

 

[asbjorne]

Unfortunately the new datadirect odbc drivers does not support v. 7.

And I can't compile or run uncompiled code with the licence I have for progress. I've got the people who created and administered the database the last years to have a look at it. Hopefully they still have their progress software...

 

[tamhas]

A query license will allow you to run 4GL programs to dump the data. Compiling them to .r is not necessary.

7.3 is painfully old.