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Trouble trying to install ODBC driver 12.2 on MAC

Camilo E. ZamoranoJul 4 2018 — edited Aug 8 2018

I've been having a really hard time trying to install the ODBC driver on mac, i followed several instructions, for example these two:

- https://community.oracle.com/thread/4120787

- https://blogs.oracle.com/opal/installing-the-oracle-odbc-driver-on-macos

And i just can't make it work. I have been searching tutorials on a bunch of sites: stackoverflow, youtube, etc but i just can't make it work.

About the blog link: when trying to run the following statement

sudo odbc_update_ini.sh /usr/local

I got the following error:

sudo: odbc_update_ini.sh: command not found

So i just used 

sudo sh odbc_update.ini.sh /usr/local

And got:

 *** ODBCINI environment variable not set,defaulting it to HOME directory! *** ODBCINI environment variable not set,defaulting it to HOME directory!

No idea what that means honestly.

Lastly i tried connecting to the database through isql on the terminal as follows:

isql OracleODBC-12c dsn user password  | isql OracleODBC-12c  user password

and it doesn't work .

Please help me, i'm kind of freaking out.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

Sdhamoth-Oracle

You have missed to prefix the path './'.

You need to execute it as:

sudo ./odbc_update.ini.sh /usr/local

What is the error message displayed by isql?

Have you checked whether the TNS setting using SQL*Plus? Were you able to connect to database using SQL*Plus?

Camilo E. Zamorano

Ok, so i executed:

sudo ./odbc_update.ini.sh /usr/local

And i got the same message:

*** ODBCINI environment variable not set,defaulting it to HOME directory!

Can you tell what does that mean?

When i try:

isql OracleODBC-12c user pwd

i get [ISQL]ERROR: Could not SQLConnect

I did sudo nano ~./odbc.ini and changed the following parts:

ServerName=

to

ServerName=localhost/myservicename

i'm trying to connect to a local server using ethernet connection on a lan.

UserID=

to UserID=myuserid

Thanks so much for you help!

Sdhamoth-Oracle

> *** ODBCINI environment variable not set,defaulting it to HOME directory!

It says that the .odbc.ini is created in the default path (i.e. $HOME directory).

> ServerName=localhost/myservicename

If the DB server is not running in the default port 1521, you need to specify the port number too. Best way to troubleshoot this scenario is by using SQL*Plus  to cross the connectivity with the TNS information provided in 'ServerName' attribute in ~/.odbc.ini file.

Camilo E. Zamorano

I tried

isql -v localhost:1521/TNSName user pwd

and i got

[IM002][unixODBC][Driver Manager]Data source name not found, and no default driver specified

I suppose it's an advance?

3758246

Hey, I'm in the same error now, any update?

Sdhamoth-Oracle

We shouldn't be passing the Oracle ez connection string in unixODBC isql.utility.

Proper syntax for unixODBC isql is :

isql DSN [USER [PASSWORD]] [options]

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