Installing the Connector Using the Tarball Package

The Simba Netezza ODBC Driver is available as a tarball package named SimbaNetezzaODBC-[Version].[Release]-Linux.tar.gz, where [Version] is the version number of the connector and [Release] is the release number for this version of the connector. The package contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the connector.

On 64-bit editions of Linux, you can execute both 32- and 64-bit applications. However, 64-bit applications must use 64-bit connectors, and 32-bit applications must use 32-bit connectors. Make sure that you use a connector whose bitness matches the bitness of the client application. You can install both versions of the connector on the same machine.

To install the connector using the tarball package:

  1. Log in as the root user, and then navigate to the folder containing the tarball package.
  2. Run the following command to extract the package, and install the connector:

    3. tar --directory=/opt -zxvf [TarballName]

    where, [TarballName] is the name of the tarball package containing the connector.

    The Simba Netezza ODBC Driver files are installed in the /opt/simba/netezzaodbc directory.

  3. If you received a license file through email, then copy the license file into the opt/simba/netezzaodbc/lib/32 or opt/simba/netezzaodbc/lib/64 folder, depending on the bitness of the connector that you have installed. You must have root privileges when changing the contents of this folder.

Next, configure the environment variables on your machine to make sure that the ODBC driver manager can work with the connector. For more information, see Configuring the ODBC Driver Manager.

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