How To Configure ODBC Connector For Informatica Cloud Secure Agent
- By : Mydatahack
- Category : ETL, Informatica
- Tags: Informatica Cloud, ODBC, Postgres, Secure Agent
Informatica does not have a dedicated Postgres database connector. Therefore, we need to use the ODBC connector. In this post, I will discuss how to configure Postgres ODBC in both Linux and Windows servers for the Informatica Cloud ODBC connector.
Linux Server (Red Hat)
There are a few instructions, but none of them is clear and it took me a while to figure it out. The steps below works fine.
(1) Install 64-bit postgres ODBC in /usr/lib64/ (see details here).
(2) Edit /etc/odbc.ini as below. Note that the Data Source Name (DSN) is the one in [].
Description = PostgreSQL connection to insightsdb
Driver = /usr/lib64/psqlodbc.so
Database =
Servername =
UserName =
Password = Port = 5432
Protocol = 9.3
ReadOnly = No
RowVersioning = No
ShowSystemTables = No
ConnSettings =
(3) Check if ODBC is working with isql command.
(4) Add these two variables in .bash_profile of the user under which the secure agent is running.
Vi ~/.bash_profile
Then add two variables below
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib64/psqlodbc.so"
(5) Restart the secure agent.
/opt/infaagent/apps/agentcore/infaagent startup
Windows Servers
Configuring ODBC in a Windows Server is a relatively easy task because you can do it with the GUI tool. You can use the 64-bit version of ODBC Data Source Administrator just like you do it with your Windows desktop.
There are two things you need to know.
- ODBC Data Source has to be configured as System DSN.
Choose Unicode, if the database server charset is set to UTF8.
Here is what it looks like.
