Preparing the Red Brick Environment

How to:

The Adapter for Red Brick minimally requires the installation of the IBM Red Brick Client 32 ODBC software. After installation, ODBC must be configured to allow you to connect to a local or remote Red Brick database server.


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Procedure: How to Set Up the Environment on Windows

On Windows, the Red Brick environment is set up during the installation of Red Brick.


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Procedure: How to Set Up the Environment on UNIX
  1. Specify the location of the Red Brick database you wish to access using the UNIX environment variable $RB_CONFIG. For example, to set the home directory for the Red Brick software to /rdbms/red61, specify:
    RB_CONFIG=/rdbms/red
    export RB_CONFIG
  2. Define the $HOME/.odbc.ini file, which describes the Red Brick data sources. You can use the ODBCINI variable instead of $HOME/.odbc.ini.

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