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PhilF
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Sorry I was confusing. Tableau talks to various DBs via ODBC. But it only works with specific drivers of specific products. (Presumably, this is because these are the ones that Tableau has tested against. Just like Progress only supports specific versions of operating systems, and doesn't support the newer ones till it has tested them.) The latest version of an OE ODBC driver that is supported by Tableau is 11.1.1. There is no word as to if/when a later version will be supported. I have considered something like what you suggest: write a PHP or Java REST client to consume data from OpenEdge, and create our own ODATA front end using freely available libraries. I doubt such a project would be trivial, though -- and I'm afraid we don't have the resources to attempt it right now.
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