On Windows, before you can use your data source with the DataServer for ODBC, you must register it as an ODBC data source using the ODBC administration tool.
register your data source as an ODBC data source using the ODBC administration tool:
1. Start the ODBC administration tool for your data source. This can be either the administration tool provided by Microsoft or a repackaging of that tool by a non-OpenEdge data-source vendor. Also, some vendors might provide a similar administration tool.
2. Select the appropriate ODBC driver.
3. Select your ODBC data source.
4. Specify a name for your data source. The name that you use to register a data source (often abbreviated as DSN for data-source name) is also the name by which OpenEdge recognizes the data source.
5. Set other configuration options required or optionally allowed through the driver vendor's configuration utilities against the target database.
6. Test connect.
7. Exit the ODBC administration tool.
You can now configure the DataServer, as described in the following sections.
