Installing Crystal Reports JDBC support

For a reporting environments with Crystal Reports 11 release 2 installed, you must install the JDBC driver support to provide ClearQuest authenticated access to ClearQuest data sources.

About this task

Installing Crystal Reports JDBC support is required only in environments that have Crystal Reports 11 release 2. In more recent releases of Crystal Reports, JDBC driver support is automatically installed by the Crystal Reports installation program.

Procedure

To install the Crystal Reports JDBC driver support:

  1. Run Crystal Reports.
  2. Select Blank Report. The Database Expert dialog box opens.
  3. Click Create New Connection and then click More Data Sources.
  4. Double-click JDBC (JNDI) to install the JDBC driver.
  5. When the JDBC (JNDI) dialog box opens, click Cancel.
  6. Click Cancel in the Database Expert dialog box.
  7. Exit Crystal Reports.

Results

The next time you start Crystal Reports, JDBC (JNDI) will appear under the Create New Connection folder.

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