OBIEE: Netezza ODBC Driver Configuration

     Below are the steps I follow to configure OBIEE with Netezza in AIX.



 Step 1: Download the Netezza ODBC client for obiee :  available in IBM knowledge Center 

 Step 2: Uncompress the Netezza odbc client installer :  Install the driver in                       Oracle_bi/common/ODBC/Netezza            

 Use uncompress filename            
also use tar -XVF filename to untar.

 Step 3: Create soft link for libnzodbc.a            

 ln -s libnzodbc.a libnzodbc.so

Step 4 : Change the OBIEE user.sh and add libpath for netezza (user.sh is available    in ORACLE_INSTANCE/bifoundation/OracleBIApplication/coreapplication/setup)                  

 Provide both bin and lib path in LIBPATH variable


Step 5 : Add Netezza odbc detail in odbc.ini of obiee                

 Do provide all the ODBC details in ODBC.ini file

Sample  
[tnsname]
Driver=libnzodbc.so path
Description=
Servername= netezza server
Port=
Database= netezza db
Username=
Password=
Debuglogging=false
StripCRLF=false
PreFetch = 65536
Protocol = 7.0
ReadOnly = true
ShowSystemTables = false
Socket = 32768
DateFormat = 1
TranslationDLL =
TranslationName =
TranslationOption =
NumericAsChar = false


Step 6: Create copy of odbc.ini in neezza driver folder : This is to test the connectivity

Step 7:  Add libpath and odbc.ini file path in .profile                

 export NZ_ODBC_INI_PATH              
export LIBPATH              
export ODBCINI                  
in .porifile and .bash_profile files

Step 8 : Test the connectivity to netezza  : Go to bin folder of  Oracle_bi/common/ODBC/Netezza               
./nzodbcsql -n tnsname

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