ADDM Teradata DB connection solution

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ADDM Teradata DB connection solution

Post by hudatolah » Thu Jun 02, 2022 4:36 pm

Just wanted to share our experience with getting Teradata integration configured and there was a syntax issue with Documentation.

From: https://community.bmc.com/s/question/0 ... n-solution

download.label=Driver download page at teradata.com
download.notes=Download the latest drivers
download.url=https\://downloads.teradata.com/download/connectivity/jdbc-driver
driver.class=com.ncr.teradata.TeraDriver
driver.enabled=true
driver.info=Tera Database Beta driver
driver.name=Teradata DB Driver
driver.supports_ipv6=false
driver.url=jdbc\:teradata\://%endpoint%[/DBS_PORT\=%port%][,DATABASE\=%database%][,%LIST&extra_parameters%]
translation.database=Database Instance Name
translation.port=Database Connection Port
translation.endpoint=Database IP Address
translation.extra_parameters=Additional JDBC Parameters
validationregex.port=[0-9]+
DriverManager.setLoginTimeout=120


Make sure you get the driver version JDBC Driver 16.20.00.11 : Teradata JDBC Driver Sample Programs
and use the argument LOGMECH=LDAP in the extra_parameters as well as the other default settings like ANSI and UTF8.
Following these simple steps will allow you to connect and query the database. We've just spent 4 days trying to get this work and I hope it will save you that research time.


Documentation unfortunately shows a question mark in the driver.url which will not work.
It also missed the setLoginTimeout and port settings, although these were not crucial in making the connection work.
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