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ODBC in IFS Cloud


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Hello, 

is it possible to create an ODBC connection which can be used in EXCEL to access data from IFS Cloud?

Our IFS Cloud server runs on premise and  I added the TESTPDB IFS instance the same way like APPS9 (see screenshot).

Unfortunately, it does not work. Are there any technical limitations?

Thanks, 

Golo

 

 

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  • Superhero (Customer)
  • 1482 replies
  • May 24, 2022

Search the community for this topic, it has been covered in other posts like this one

 

https://community.ifs.com/framework-and-experience-101/can-an-odbc-connection-to-ifs-application-be-created-from-within-excel-16247

 


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  • Superhero (Employee)
  • 427 replies
  • May 24, 2022

Hi @golo.naito,

With IFS Cloud, if you need to connect to the database directly with ODBC for data extraction you would probably need to connect using a oracle account such as IFSDBREADONLY. Normal end users will not have Oracle accounts that you can use as they are maintained in IAM rather than as Oracle users. 

Cheers.


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  • Sidekick (Customer)
  • 24 replies
  • June 1, 2022

Thanks everyone for the comments. I searched the community, but it didn’t really answer my question as our IFS Cloud runs on premise on our own servers and not on a cloud server.

 

I eventually made it work by installing the latest ODBC drivers and adding a Tnsnames.ora file which configures the database addresses.

 


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  • Superhero (Partner)
  • 457 replies
  • May 11, 2023

Did someone try to create service user and establish connection through ODBC using Oauth authorization?


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