Configuration Manager

ODBC - OLEDB connection

This section describes the additional configuration parameters when you plan to use the ODBC connection client. Before entering this configuration section, make sure you configured the ODBC driver or created an UDL = Universal Data Link. You will need to create an udl whenever you plan to use OLEDB instead of ODBC.

Select ODBC in the connection type listbox when defining the database connection. Your screen will look like:

• DSN name: (Required) Enter or select the DSN that points to your ODBC driver. This is the DSN on the client's machine. This may be a different machine then your configuration manager is installed on. The listbox only shows the DSNs of the workstation you are working on. Therefore the DSN you need may not be in the list when your client is gonna run on a different machine. If your DSN is not in the list, simply enter the DSN manually.
  If you plan to use OLEDB, you don't have to create a DSN. Create a UDL instead, and enter the full path to the .udl file in here. Again the path and filename must be seen from the connection client's workstation point of view.
• Username: (optional) the username to access the database.
• Password: (optional) the password to access the database.
• DB library (user): (optional) SQL prefix to be written in front of the all tables related to this connection. This might be needed
  • when you access the database with a different user then the database owner, Typical entry would be <database owner>. Example: if the database owner is 'promes' then all tables can be accessed as 'promes.tablename'. (Do not confuse with MS-Access where attached tables are using an underscore (_).
  • when you must specify the library name where the database resides. Typical for AS400.
• Control library (user): (optional) Same as DB library, but this entry points to the PRODBX typical tables (HEAD and TRB) if you enabled the trigger-based channel. When you created these tables (files) in the same environment as your main tables, you must make this entry the same as DB library.
• Polling time normal: (Required) time in milliseconds between 2 consecutive pollings. Or the time between two checkings of the HEAD table, containing the pointer of the circular buffer of generated triggers.
• Polling time fast: (optional) time in milliseconds for a fast polling. This time is only enabled when the client gets a transaction of COMMAND type. This can only be generated by clients directly connected with the source application, like ADO and XML type connections. These clients are able to send a command to another client for getting an instant answer of that client.
• Database type: (for future enhancement)
• Tds update function: (optional) Time and date stamp function when the trigger on the database generates the timestamp when the trigger was executed (generated the transaction). This timestamp is stored in the TRB table of the source database in the TDS_UPDATE field, in the format typical to that database. In this field you select the conversion method for converting this format to the format of the destination database where the 'Last update on field' is kept.
• TRB field to stack: (optional) You may also define a fieldname you created in the TRB table, filled by your trigger, of which the contents should be copied to the STACK as extra input for a function when interpreting the transaction.