RESOLVED: [dba-SQLServer]Using DTS for Informix to SQL

Bridget Doran bdoran at cce.umn.edu
Thu Jun 26 14:00:25 CDT 2003


Looks like the interest is lacking on this one but just in case someone
out there wonders....

This appears to be a classic DLL Hell scenario. I finally decided to
uninstall and reinstall SQL Enterprise Manager on the machine which
fixed the problem.

I wish I would have thought of that sooner :)  One caveat for other
unsuspecting installers out there: When you get the DLL message on an
uninstall to delete or not [Yes, Yes to All, No, No to All], realize
this is a very tricky question!


-----Original Message-----
From: Bridget Doran 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 12:14 PM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-SQLServer]Using DTS for Informix to SQL


Hello all --
I am having a bugger of a driver issue when trying to get to an Informix
Database through DTS. Does anyone have experience with this? Some Facts:
1) I am using the IBM Informix CSDK latest version which installs the
3.81 informix ODBC driver
2) I get a valid connection to the database when I set up a DSN in ODBC
Manager.
3) The DTS to Informix works on the server(Win2k) and on my desktop (XP)
but NOT on another developer's machine (XP). 
While I can get a valid connection to the database on the problem
machine in the DSN setup, I cannot get the DTS to "read" this properly.
The error I get in setting up the DTS Connection is "unable to load the
translation DLL" 
I have uninstalled and reinstalled the informix driver by uninstalling
the Informix CSDK. 
Very freaky behavior because sometimes I can get the DTS to start
running and not error out with the DLL message but it runs on forever
and I eventually need to kill it.

Any thoughts on how to move forward here?  I was thinking I may need to
reimage the machine from scratch. Not sure what else to do.

Thanks much

Bridget

Bridget Doran  ~~~
Office of Information Systems
College of Continuing Education
612.626.8633

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