This section describes how to set up ODBC connectivity and configure DSNs on several Linux distributions: Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu, and Red Hat Linux platforms, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Fedora.

Minimum Linux Versions

Here are the minimum supported versions for Red Hat-based and Debian-based systems:

OS	Min. Version
Ubuntu	18.04
Debian	10
RHEL	8
Fedora	28
SUSE	15

Installing the Driver Dependencies

Run the following commands as root or with sudo to install the necessary dependencies:

• Debian/Ubuntu:
  

  apt-get install libc6 libstdc++6 zlib1g libgcc1

• RHEL/Fedora:
  

  yum install glibc libstdc++ zlib libgcc

Installing the Driver

You can use standard package management systems to install the driver.

On Debian-based systems, like Ubuntu, run the following command with root or sudo:

dpkg -i /path/to/driver/setup/TwilioODBCDriverforUnix.deb 

On systems that support the RPM package format, run the following command with root or sudo:

rpm -ivh /path/to/driver/TwilioODBCDriverforUnix.rpm 

Licensing the Driver

Run the following commands to license the driver. To activate a trial, omit the <key> input.

cd /opt/cdata/cdata-odbc-driver-for-twilio/bin/
sudo ./install-license.sh <key>

Connecting through the Driver Manager

The driver manager loads the driver and passes function calls from the application to the driver. You need to register the driver with the driver manager and you define DSNs in the driver manager's configuration files.

The driver installation registers the driver with the unixODBC driver manager and creates a system DSN. The unixODBC driver manager can be used from Python and from many other applications. Your application may embed another driver manager.

Creating the DSN

See Using unixODBC to install unixODBC and configure DSNs. See Using the DataDirect Driver Manager to create a DSN to connect to OBIEE, Informatica, and SAS.

Connecting to Twilio

You can authenticate to Twilio using either an Auth Token or an API key.

Auth Token

You can authenticate to Twilio using an Auth Token and an Account SID.

Open the Twilio Console Dashboard, navigate to the Account Info section, and set these connection properties:

• AccountSID: the value of the Account SID field.
• AuthToken: the value of the Auth Token field. Click Show to unhide it.

API Key

To authenticate to Twilio using an API key:

1. Open the Twilio Console Dashboard and click Account Info > API Keys > Go to API Keys. The API keys & tokens page opens.
2. Click Create API key. The Create new API key menu opens.
   • Set Friendly name to a name you want to use to refer to the token.
   • Set Region to the region in which you want the API key to apply.
   • Set Key type to your desired key type. The options include:
     • Standard - Grants access to all Twilio API features except for managing API Keys, Account Configuration, and Subaccounts.
     • Main - Grants access to the same features as the Standard key type, with the added ability to manage API Keys, Account Configuration, and Subaccounts.
     • Restricted - Allows granular access to a subset of the Twilio API features that the standard APIKey grants. If you select this option, you must manually specify the permissions that the token grants.
3. Click Create. This opens the Copy secret key page.
4. Note the values of the SID and Secret fields. The latter is only shown once, so make sure you copy it before leaving this page.
5. Set the following connection properties:
   • AuthScheme: APIKey
   • AccountSID: the value of the Account SID field in the Account Info section of the Twilio Console Dashboard.
   • APIKeySID: the SID of the API key you generated earlier, which you noted in step 4.
   • APIKeySecret: the API key secret of the API key you generated earlier, which you noted in step 4.

Set the Driver Encoding

The ODBC drivers need to specify which encoding to use with the ODBC Driver Manager. By default, the CData ODBC Drivers for Unix are configured to use UTF-16 which is compatible with unixODBC, but other Driver Managers may require alternative encoding.

Alternatively, if you are using the ODBC driver from an application that uses the ANSI ODBC API it may be necessary to set the ANSI code page. For example, to import Japanese characters in an ANSI application, you can specify the code page in the config file '/opt/cdata/cdata-odbc-driver-for-twilio/lib/cdata.odbc.twilio.ini':

[Driver]
AnsiCodePage = 932