Linux System Requirements

The Simba Netezza ODBC Driver supports Netezza Performance Server 11.x.

Install the connector on client machines where the application is installed. Each client machine that you install the connector on must meet the following minimum system requirements:

  • One of the following distributions:
    • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 8
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 or 15
    • Debian 10
    • Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, or 24.04
  • 150MB of available disk space
  • One of the following ODBC driver managers installed:
    • iODBC 3.52.9 or later
    • unixODBC 2.2.14 or later

To install the connector, you must have root access on the machine.

If you are using the RPM file to install the connector on Debian or Ubuntu, you must also have the alien utility installed. The alien utility is available on SourceForge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alien-pkg-convert/.

  • Installing the Connector on page 1
  • Configuring the Connector on page 1