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ODBC Driver for Teradata® User Guide - 17.20

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Lake
VMware
Product
ODBC Driver for Teradata
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2023-11-18
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

The Teradata ODBC Driver installer sets the following symbolic links in /usr/lib64:

> ls -l libodbc*.so
libodbc.so -> /opt/teradata/client/17.20/lib64/libodbc.so
libodbcinst.so -> /opt/teradata/client/17.20/lib64/libodbcinst.so

(Similar links exist for 32-bit installations in /usr/lib.)

This will invoke the DataDirect Driver Manager.

  1. To use unixODBC driver manager, change the symbol links in /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib:
    > sudo rm libodbc.so
    > sudo rm libodbcinst.so
    > sudo ln -s libodbc.so.2 libodbc.so
    > sudo ln -s libodbcinst.so.2 libodbcinst.so
    > ls -l libodbc.so libodbcinst.so
    
    ... libodbcinst.so -> libodbcinst.so.2
    ... libodbc.so -> libodbc.so.2
    
  2. To use iODBC driver manager, change the symbol links in /usr/lib64 or /usr/lib:
    > sudo rm libodbc.so
    > sudo rm libodbcinst.so
    > sudo ln -s libodbc.so.2 /usr/local/lib/libiodbc.so
    > sudo ln -s libodbcinst.so.2 /usr/local/lib/libiodbcinst.so
    
    > ls -l libodbc.so libodbcinst.so
    ... libodbc.so -> /usr/local/lib/libiodbc.so.2
    ... libodbcinst.so -> /usr/local/lib/libiodbcinst.so.2
    

    It is assumed here that your iODBC driver manager is installed in /usr/local/lib. If not, use the appropriate path instead of /usr/local/lib when executing 'ln -s'.