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ODBC's output is not readable

Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:12 pm
by nimix9ig
Dear all

did you have practice that use ODBC stage to read data from SQL server database ?

Now i am using ODBC stage to read SQL SEVER data, but data is not readable

all the values are showing as ?????

pls advise

Context

Datastage Version : 7.5
Stage : ODBC Enterprise
Source DB: SQL SERVER
Target DB: DB2
Platform: AIX

Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2013 11:25 pm
by ray.wurlod
I have never had a problem. Obviously you can connect OK, therefore presumably the problem is no in .odbc.ini or uvodbc.ini). The most likely culprits are incorrect settings either of the metadata (for example CHAR instead of WCHAR or NCHAR) or of the NLS character map.