| Solution ID: prim13721 |
| How to connect Cost Manager / Cost Management to an Oracle Project Manager / Project Management database. |
| Status: Reviewed |
| Version(s): 3.5.1, 4.1, 5.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.2.1 |
| Problem: | How to connect Cost Manager / Cost Management to an Oracle Project Manager / Project Management database. |
| Fix: | In Windows Explorer, go to the My Documents folder. Right-click and select New, Microsoft Data Link. Note: If the option ‘Microsoft Data Link’ is not available, see: In the Provider tab, select ‘Oracle Provider for OLE DB’ Note: DO NOT SELECT ‘Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Oracle’. We do not support this selection for connecting to a Project Manager/Project Management database from Cost Manager/Cost Management. If you do not have ‘Oracle Provider for OLE DB’ as an option, see Solution ID: prim5265 ”Getting error message during install of Oracle Drivers from the Cost Manager CD” to see how you can go about getting it. ALSO NOTE: A bug in the latest Oracle Providers for OLE DB (10.1.0.4 or later) prevents successful imports from an Oracle 10g Project Management database. Use of a supported 9i driver is required when interfacing with a 10g PM database. Also, the client driver can be 10.2.0.3 or later. Alternatively, an 11g client driver can be used also.
In the Connection tab, enter the data source that is in your TNSNAMES.ORA file (where the PMDB database is located). Enter the Privuser username and password that you setup the PMDB database with. Check off Allow saving password option. Select ‘Test Connection’ to make sure the UDL is setup correctly, and you should receive a ‘Test connection succeeded’ message.
Re-launch Cost Manager /Cost Management and you should see the new UDL in the Source Browser. |
