Consultor Eletrônico

Status: Unverified

GOAL:

Can the ODBC driver that is packaged with Progress Client Products be installed without installing the Progress Client?

GOAL:

Can the ODBC driver be installed without installing Client Networking?

FACT(s) (Environment):

Progress 9.x
MERANT 3.60 32-BIT Progress SQL-92

FIX:

It is not possible to only install ONLY the ODBC driver via the Progress installation utility separately from the Progress Client Product. The ODBC driver that is packaged with Progress Client Products can not establish a connection to the Database unless a Progress Client license exists. The ODBC driver is an Optional component so a Complete or Custom installation of the Progress Client product is required.

The minimum Progress license that includes the ODBC driver is the Progress SQL Client Access Product. Please refer to Progress Solution:P3842,"What Progress licenses install the ODBC SQL-92 driver and JDBC driver"

Although it is not possible to install ODBC standalone, some of the mandatory components (such as JDBC support) can be removed if not needed. This brings the install down to around 50MB.

** Please note, the following is under advisement and has not been fully verified. Any issues experienced would first have to be proven against a FULL Client Product installation. **
With the Client-Networking license:

- leave PROMSGS and Common Files checked, as without them it will not be a valid installation; registry entries are not added and the product will not uninstall.

- de-select Mandatory components to configure the installation as follows:
Remove Components:
Runtime Client
Client-Networking
ActiveX Control Support
Character Runtime Client DEV
Report Engine
Graphical Base Tools
- Add Component:
Progress SQL ODBC Clients

- Remove Components from Progress SQL ODBC Clients:
SQL Common
JRE
Progress Class Files
leave Common Files selected.