Hello, I need help defining an ODBC datasource on the Sequelink server on Solaris.

I can use the sqlnkcau utility that comes with the ODBC client to define and test the datasource, but I get the following error.

SequeLink Server error 10004
[S1000]The requested ODBC datasource is not defined on the server system.
Tamino error -1454
[S1000][MERANT][Tamino server][Tamino]1454(E): client server interface send
error
Test failed: connection to ‘tamino’ failed.


As far as I can tell the sqlnkcau utility only comes with
the SQLink ODBC client , which gets installed to a separate directory and
holds its own datasource names.
The client installs to
/usr/sqlnk/4_51_00/bin (sqlnkcau and sqlnkcausilent)

but the server installs to
/usr/sqlnk/4_00_00/bin (sltam only)


It looks like to me like there is a sequelink server script:
/usr/sqlnk/instances/SLTamino.sh and SLTamino.cfg
that points to a directory which is supposed to contain my odbc
configuration for the server:
(/usr/sqlnk/tamino/tam.ini)
But this directory is different than where the client sqlnkcau utility is
storing the datasources:
/usr/sqlnk/4_51_00/ini/sqlnkdsn.ini

Any ideas?



regards,
Lee



Lee Murray
Vivare, Inc.
e: lee.murray@vivare.com

Hi Lee,

I have Tamino 3.1.1.1 on Solaris working with Sequelink.
In the “sagenv” file there is call to
$INODIR/$INOVERS/sqlnk/sqlnk.sh
and this script sets the following environment variable:
ODBCINI=…odbc.ini
I think the key for all this work is this environment variable ODBCINI.
So if you point it to your /usr/sqlnk/4_51_00/ini/sqlnkdsn.ini all works fine.

Regards.

Juanjo,
thanks for the help, but I am still having problems.

I tried your suggestion but it didn’t work.
Maybe you could clarify a few things for me about your configuration since you seem to have it working.
Are you running the same versions as I?
-tamino 3111
-sequelink server 4
-sequelink odbc client 451

I realize what you are saying that it is probably environment variables - it is just that there are so many separate scripts that set the env variables.

Here is what I understand about the chain of scripts/environments

inetd.conf runs the sequelink server script as root: (from /etc/inetd.conf)
(root has no variables set in /etc/profile)
----------------------------------------
isl4015 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sqlnk/instances/SLTamino.sh SLTamino.sh



SLTamino.sh runs and calls the sequelink server binary (sltam)
( I tried adding the call to /usr/SAG/sagenv.new to this but it didn’t seem to help)
----------------------------------
#!/bin/sh

#. /usr/SAG/sagenv.new

SLSERVICE=SLTamino
export SLSERVICE
SQLNKDIR=/usr/sqlnk
export SQLNKDIR
VERSION=4_00_00
export VERSION
ISLVINI=/usr/sqlnk
export ISLVINI
SQLNK_OPERATOR=local3
export SQLNK_OPERATOR
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sqlnk/tamino/lib:/usr/SAG/common/lib:LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH


exec /usr/sqlnk/4_00_00/bin/sltam -S SLTamino > /usr/sqlnk/SLTamino.log 2>&1


-----------------------------------------

Here is where I am lost. apparently the sltam binary is looking at some variables to determine how to find the ODBC datasource entries, and I can’t tell how it would get back to the
/usr/SAG/v3111/sqlnk/sqlnk.sh or /usr/SAG/sagenv.new scripts, unless I tell inetd to run the script as the sag user or add these calls to the SLTamino.sh script.

Here is a summary of all the variables and scripts
that set them that I can find:
-/usr/sqlnk/instances/SLTamino.sh and .cfg
-/usr/sqlnk/4_51_00/.sqlnk.sh
-/usr/SAG/ino/v3111/sqlnk/sqlnk.sh

And here is a list of all the odbc definitions I can find
-/usr/sqlnk/tamino/tam.ini
-/usr/sqlnk/4_51_00/ini/.odbc.ini and other sqlnk*.ini
-/usr/SAG/ino/v3111/sqlnk/odbc.ini

if you could help clear up I would appreciate it

thanks,
Lee