Connect to Netezza from ArcGIS

Install and configure the Netezza ODBC driver on the ArcGIS client machines from which you connect to the Netezza database.

1. Install the Netezza ODBC driver on the client machine.

   Install a 32-bit ODBC driver if connecting from a 32-bit ArcGIS application; install a 64-bit ODBC driver if connecting from a 64-bit ArcGIS application. See the Netezza DBMS system requirements for supported versions of the driver.

2. Configure the driver character set.
   • If you will be using the legacy Netezza Spatial Package on a Windows operating system, set the driver to Optimize for ASCII character set during ODBC driver installation.
   • If you will be using the legacy Netezza Spatial Package on a Linux operating system, set the following parameters in the odbcinst.ini file after ODBC driver installation:
     • UnicodeTranslationOption = utf16
     • CharacterTranslationOption = latin9
   • If you will be using the Netezza Spatial Esri Package on a Windows operating system, do not set the driver to Optimize for ASCII character set during ODBC driver installation.
   • If you will be using the Netezza Spatial Esri Package on a Linux operating system, set the following parameters in the odbcinst.ini file after ODBC driver installation:
     • UnicodeTranslationOption = utf16
     • CharacterTranslationOption = all
3. If connecting from an ArcGIS client on Linux, be sure a Linux ODBC driver manager is installed on the client machine.
4. If connecting from ArcGIS Server on Linux, do the following:
   1. Open the init_user_param.sh script found in the /arcgis/server/usr directory of the ArcGIS Server installation directory.
   2. Uncomment and set the LIB_ODBC_DRIVER_MANAGER variable to the location of the Linux ODBC driver manager file.

      For example, export LIB_ODBC_DRIVER_MANAGER=$HOME/bin/libodbc.so

   3. Place the Netezza ODBC connection files in the ArcGIS user's $HOME directory. The files must be named .odbc.ini and .odbcinst.ini.
   4. If ArcGIS Server was already running before you set up the Netezza connection, restart ArcGIS Server.
5. After the ODBC driver is installed, you can set up an ODBC data source name. This name can then be used when you connect to the database.

   If you set an ODBC data source name for the database, use the same name when configuring all Netezza ODBC clients to that same database. For example, if you configure a data source name for the Netezza ODBC driver on your ArcGIS for Desktop machine, set the same data source name for the Netezza ODBC driver on your ArcGIS Server machine. If you do not do this, registration of the database with ArcGIS Server will not work properly, as it compares the connection strings of the data being published and the database that is registered.