Document Overview
See the Table of Contents for a detailed listing of the subjects covered in this document.
The InterSystems ODBC driver provides a way to connect to InterSystems databases from external applications via ODBC, and allows InterSystems products to access external ODBC data sources.
This document covers the following topics:
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Requirements and Configuration — provides an overview of the InterSystems ODBC driver.
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Defining an ODBC Data Source on Windows — describes how to use InterSystems IRIS as a ODBC data source on Windows.
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Defining an ODBC Data Source on UNIX® — describes how to use InterSystems IRIS as a ODBC data source on UNIX®.
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ODBC Installation and Validation on UNIX® Systems — describes tools to test and validate ODBC installations, and provides instructions for stand-alone installation and custom iODBC installation.
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ODBC Support for Python and Node.js — describes support for Python and Node.js open source interfaces to ODBC.
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Logging and Environment Variables — describes some tools you can use to perform troubleshooting.
For more information, see the following sources:
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Using .NET with InterSystems Software describes how use the InterSystems implementation of the ADO.NET Managed Provider for relational data access and the Entity Framework for object access.
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Using Java with InterSystems Software includes information on JDBC connectivity to InterSystems IRIS from external data sources (the JDBC equivalent of what is described in this manual).
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Using the InterSystems SQL Gateway provides an overview of how the SQL Gateway works with both ODBC and JDBC.
