To enable a broker to connect to
a database, define the ODBC data source name (DSN) for the database.
Important:- Before you can create a broker on any platform except HP-UX on Itanium, you must define the 32-bit
ODBC data source name (DSN) that the broker will use to connect to
the broker database, even if you are connecting to a 64-bit database,
because the broker is a 32-bit application.
- If you are using 64-bit execution groups, or if you are globally
coordinating transactions using a 64-bit queue manager, you might
also need to define a 64-bit DSN for your broker databases; for more information, see Enabling ODBC connections to the databases.
- The broker on HP-UX on Itanium is
a 64-bit application, therefore you must define a 64-bit ODBC DSN
for the broker database (see Connecting to a database from Linux and UNIX systems: 64-bit considerations).
The ODBC Driver Manager has no graphical
application to help you to configure the ODBC DSNs. You must define
each database 32-bit ODBC
connection as a DSN in a plain text file called odbc.ini on
the computer that hosts the broker.
To configure a 32-bit DSN for a database:
Next: Configure the environment
for issuing console commands, and for running the broker, so that
the broker can access the required database libraries.
For more information, see
Setting your environment to support access to databases.