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  • November 3, 2021
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Tharindu Fernando
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Is it possible to create an ODBC connection to IFS Application from within Excel?

Best answer by Voshitha

Yes, You could use Get Data option in Data tab in Excel ribbon. Then select Get Data From Oracle.

But for this you need to have vpn connection to the database server as well as necessary database privileges and knowledge about entities in relational database system. 

Also note that from IFS Cloud release onwards IFS Database could not directly accessible from outside systems. 

Therefore I wouldn’t recommend directly connecting to oracle in order to retrieve data.

 

Best regards,

Voshitha

 

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  • November 6, 2021

Yes, You could use Get Data option in Data tab in Excel ribbon. Then select Get Data From Oracle.

But for this you need to have vpn connection to the database server as well as necessary database privileges and knowledge about entities in relational database system. 

Also note that from IFS Cloud release onwards IFS Database could not directly accessible from outside systems. 

Therefore I wouldn’t recommend directly connecting to oracle in order to retrieve data.

 

Best regards,

Voshitha

 


Tharindu Fernando
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  • November 9, 2021

Yes, You could use Get Data option in Data tab in Excel ribbon. Then select Get Data From Oracle.

But for this you need to have vpn connection to the database server as well as necessary database privileges and knowledge about entities in relational database system. 

Also note that from IFS Cloud release onwards IFS Database could not directly accessible from outside systems. 

Therefore I wouldn’t recommend directly connecting to oracle in order to retrieve data.

 

Best regards,

Voshitha

 

Thanks a lot Voshitha