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Adding an Autonomous REST JDBC Driver

Prerequisite:

  1. Request the Support team to provide the TIautorest Progress JAR.

Procedure:

  1. Log in as the system administrator (superuser).

  2. Select View > Repository, right-click a folder's name, and select Add Resource > Data Source from the context menu. Alternatively, you can select Create > Data Source from the main menu on any page.

  3. From the Type drop-down, select JDBC. The page refreshes to show the fields necessary for a JDBC data source.

  4. The JDBC Driver drop-down lists the available JDBC drivers and the ones that are not installed. Select Other.

  5. In the JDBC Driver (required) field, enter tibcosoftware.jdbc.autorest.AutoRESTDriver.

  6. Click Add Driver. The Select Driver dialog appears.

  7. In the Select Driver dialog, click Choose File to locate the appropriate driver JAR file.

  8. Click Upload to install the driver.

  9. In the URL field, enter the connection string by specifying the location of the config file using the Config connection property. For example, jdbc:tibcosoftware:autorest:config=C:\\example.rest.

    To understand how to use an autonomous REST connector, see the documentation.

  10. Click Test Connection to check if all inputs are correct.

  11. Click Save to save the data source.