using a Merant 3.70 32-bit Progress ODBC driver, i can append data to an existing table structure manually through a SQL Server DTS package. if i try to schedule it as a job within the SQL Server Agent, it fails. Does anyone know how the ODBC is trying to open PROMSGS and what permissions it needs to have? Suggestions? ---ssam
following is the actual error message:
DTSRun: Loading... DTSRun: Executing... DTSRun OnStart: Copy Data from Results to [SytelineImport].[dbo].[cu
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Progress version is 9.1C on unix.
SQL Server instance is installed on Windows Server 2003.
Merant 3.7 is also installed on Windows Server 2003 ( the same server).
If I test the connection manually from ODBC utility, it connects correctly.
If I run DTS package manually, it runs fine. The only time I have a problem if it is run as a job. That's when I get the PROMSGS error.
No, I mean a Job within SQL Server Agent. If you look at the very first original question on this thread, it explains my problem exactly. I am running a DTS package in SQL Server, moving data from Progress to SQL, using DSN with Merant 3.70 driver.
When I schedule a DTS package to run in SQL Server Agent, it makes it a job. That job fails with the error described above.
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by: jgilligan1Posted on 2004-04-09 at 06:23:02ID: 10790997
Well, there are at least a couple of problems.
1. You do not have your environment variables set, depending on how your doing your ODBC connect, you need to specifify at least a couple of variables ahead of your active DB session.
1. DLC=/usr/dlc91x/ (wherever you have progress installed)
2. PROMSG=$DLC/promsgs - this typically is under your DLC directory and points to a storage file which controlls the error messages that progress reports on.
Other than that, as far as permissions are concerned, you don't need to have anything other that read only. But as far as access to the database you may also wish to set that to read only as well.
If that doesn't show you any love, you may consider the PEG (http://www.peg.com) , it may be a faux pas to mention it here but this is a usergroup which is very small but has some excellent progress experts (many of whom work for Progress itself) , You'd be hard pressed to find a more competent group than those guys when it comes to Progress.
Hope that helps,
Joe Gilligan
Perpetual student.