Hi all,
Firstly after my last "adventure" with SDA where I made a highly fundamental error, we managed to have some great success with SDA. We connected to Oracle, Hadoop and MS/SQL. In the case of Oracle we managed to almost seamlessly creqte HANA definitions by using Oracle Meta Data via Data Pump creating pluggable databases in out lab, then creating virtual HANA tables and finally creating actual HANA tables. The advantage of this is that we can now ensure correct domain translation.
OK, so I know that I actually owed the forum a "blog" on the above, but (and I seem to live my life in embarrassment 
) but I actually "lost" my original machine (VM) and have now started to deploy an SDA setup (on both an 82 and an 84 HANA) again. Once again I am using the manuala anf Leo Hue's excellent article.
So the embarrasment is that I have installed the ODBC and the instantclient software but for some reason, the ldd produces the following (I have dome the isql --version successfully):
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf75c6000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf759d000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7582000)
libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xf7568000)
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xf755e000)
libclntsh.so.12.1 => /root/instantclient_12_1/libclntsh.so.12.1 (0xf51c9000)
libodbcinst.so.2 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf502a000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7774000)
libnnz12.so => /root/instantclient_12_1/libnnz12.so (0xf4bd2000)
libons.so => /root/instantclient_12_1/libons.so (0xf4b9e000)
libaio.so.1 => /lib/libaio.so.1 (0xf4b9b000)
libclntshcore.so.12.1 => /root/instantclient_12_1/libclntshcore.so.12.1 (0xf4932000)
So the problem is with libodbcinst.so.2 . The module is definitely there (installed in /usr/ocal/lib) and the library in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and implemented via hdbenv.sh
I think that my problrm is that last time I had done so much to "fix" my eventually silly error that I it was not obvious this time. The permissions all look OK, but any help as usual appreciated and (the promise of s desperate man!) if I get out of this I promise to share more .
Regards
John