Configuring the Oracle Wire Protocol Driver

Configuring the driver through the driver Setup dialog box is described in "Configuring Data Sources" in "The Oracle Wire Protocol Driver" of the DataDirect Connect64 for ODBC and Connect64 XE for ODBC User's Guide.

With 5.3 SP1, the Advanced tab of the Setup dialog now includes the Initialization String option:

The Advanced tab of the ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol Driver Setup dialog box

Initialization String: Type a SQL string to manage session settings that will be issued immediately after connecting to the database.

For example, to change the language of the current session to American, type alter session set NLS_LANGUAGE = 'AMERICAN'.

The Initialization String option can also be set in the odbc.ini file on UNIX and Linux. See "Connection String Attribute" for the correct syntax. See "Configuring a Data Source in the System Information File" for information about the odbc.ini file.