The CData ODBC Driver for FinancialForce is a standards-based ODBC driver with editions for Windows and Unix-based operating systems, like macOS and Linux. The following sections show how to create an ODBC data source and query data.

Creating a DSN on Your Platform

The following guides show how to use the standard tools to configure data source names (DSN).

• Windows

  Windows DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the Microsoft ODBC Administrator tool.

• macOS

  macOS DSN Configuration shows how to configure a DSN with the iODBC driver manager.

• Linux

  Linux DSN Configuration shows how to configure DSNs with several major driver managers on Linux.

FinancialForce Version Support

The driver requires the Web Services API. The Web Services API is supported natively by FinancialForce Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer editions. The Web Services API may be enabled on Professional Edition at an additional cost by contacting FinancialForce. The driver defaults to version 40.0 of the FinancialForce API. Later or earlier versions can be specified in the APIVersion property.

See Also

See the following sections to connect to the DSN from tools and from code:

• Using from Tools: Connect to the DSN from various tools on different platforms.
• Using ODBC: Connect to the DSN using the native ODBC API.
• Create a Linked Server: Connect to the DSN as a remote SQL Server database.
• MySQL Remoting: Connect to the DSN over the MySQL protocol.