Oracle ODBC Driver for Unix platforms Release Notes
Release 11.2

ODBC Driver for Unix platforms

Release Notes
Release 11.2

May, 2009

1 ODBC Driver for Unix platforms

Oracle ODBC Driver for Unix platforms complies with ODBC 3.52 specifications. It is based on features of Oracle 11.2 ODBC driver for Windows. Please refer to Certification Matrix in section 2, to know about the platforms supported by 11.2 ODBC drivers.

1.1 Pre installation task – Install ODBC DM from unixODBC.org

Please install ODBC Driver Manager after downloading .tar file from http://www.unixodbc.org/

1.2 Post installation task

Configure Oracle ODBC driver on Unix platforms

You can configure Oracle ODBC Driver by running <install-home>/odbc/utl/odbc_update_ini.sh

The utility “odbc_update_ini.sh” takes four command-line arguments

arg-1 : Complete path where unixODBC DM has been installed.
arg-2 : Complete path of driver install location (optional); if this argument is not passed, the driver path is set to the directory from where the utility is run.
arg-3 : Driver name (optional); if this argument is not passed, driver name is set to “Oracle 11g ODBC driver”.
arg-4 : Data Source Name (optional); if no value is passed, DSN is set to “OracleODBC-11g”.

Update/ verify values of environment variables such as PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LIBPATH, TNS_ADMIN.

1.3 Uninstalling ODBC Driver

Update ~/.odbc.ini file:

Remove DSN entry (e.g., "OracleODBC-11g") from [ODBC Data Sources].
Remove complete DSN information for corresponding DSN.

Update <ODBCDM_HOME>/etc/odbcinst.ini file:

Remove driver information for “Oracle 11g ODBC driver”.

Remove Oracle ODBC driver for Unix platforms

Delete libsqora.so.11.1

Reset environment variables such as PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LIBPATH, TNS_ADMIN.

1.4 Bugs Fixed

Please refer ODBC Release Note.

2 Certification Matrix

Platform 32/64 bit UnixODBC DM ver

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Linux x86-32 32 bit 2.2.14

Linux x86-64 32,64 bit 2.2.14

Solaris SPARC64 32,64 bit 2.2.14

AIX 5L 5.2 32,64 bit 2.2.12

Solaris x64 64 bit 2.2.14

Linux IA64 64 bit 2.2.14

Linux on Power 32,64 bit 2.2.14

HP Itanium 32,64 bit 2.2.14

Please refer to Installation guide of each platform to know the different flavors of OS and Oracle Client software requirements.