It seems as though I keep on the SDA path but find hurdles along the way either of my own of HANA's doing.
So I am now working on connecting to DB2. I downloaded the 10.5 ODBCCLI driver and followed the instructions in the SAP HANA academy video (Bob).
I was working initially with DB2 10.5 and all went well up until and including the ISQL test i.e. I could SELECT against the EMPLOYEE table from the SAMPLE database. I should add that the DB2 was the Express version and very bare bones i.e. just the sample database.
The problem arose when I was provisioning (Studio). Instead of seeing "NULL" next to a the disk ion (the connection did not complain) then dropping down to the various schemas it simply gave me the disk icon followed by odd characters (Korean? question mark, Klingon!). I added several sources from the same DSN and sometimes this differed, for example it would randomly drop down to something which could be a schema or even the word "TABLES" . The bottom line was that it did not show any of the tables. I also did the provisioning through the command line but that did not help.
This morning, I decided that it was probably the fact that I was using DB2 10.5 so I switched to 10.1 but that also did not help.
I could revert to ODBCLI 10.1 but in the video, Bob does use the 10.5 one.
I did notice that he is using ODBC 2.3.0 where I am using 2.3.2. I cannot downgrade this as I want to connect to Oracle from the same HAHA box. I should also say that I have successfully connected to said Oracle, Hadoop and MSSQL from this box with 2.3.2
So once again my question is "What am I missing?"
Any help appreciated
Regards
John