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RIP Kim... Although I never met him,we had an opportunity to work with him in one of the projects. We learned so much from him just through his review comments. Will remember his hearty laughter.

Hi, We are upgrading MDM9.0 to MDM11. Our DS/QS version is 8.5. We are using ootb QS jobs including one with CASS for address validation. In this context I am trying to know if I may need to upgrade DS/QS to a higher version compatible to MDM 11.3. Or, is it ok to use the same DS/QS version and the ...

Thanks Ray and Kim for your help.
Appreciate that.

Thanks Ray it solved my problem. Turned out that my uvodbc.config was not in sync across project folders. I had updated it only in my project and DSEngine.

Just one more small and i guess silly question Ray. Where can i locate ODBCINI environment variable. I have DS client installed in my WIN7.

Ray, Thanks for replying. I checked .odbc.ini and found that i had missed the newline in the end. I included it at three places- 1. Inside .odbc.ini. 2. Inside DSEngine. 3. Inside < My Project>. I am still receiving the same error while running job. Do i need to look for .odbc.ini in some other plac...

Kim, It looks like there was some problem with .odbc.ini itself. I guess it got corrupted or may be some extra characters or spaces were creating a problem. I replaced the .odbc.ini with a backed up file and then added the DSNs again. Now the connection remains connected and i dont have to do refres...

Thanks Kim. This is a useful piece of information. But i suspect if ODBC can timeout in just few seconds? Because for me for one second it says connection NOT established and then in another 10seconds i go back and refresh my database check again and it CONNECTS. Can you help me know where can i see...

Hi All, I am facing a weird issue with connecting my DB2 databse to datastage jobs. I have configured the odbc.ini and uvodbc.config files as per needed but whenever i use a connector stage(ODBC predominantly) and test the connection sometimes it says connection successful and another second if i hi...