OpenEdge Data Management: DataServer for Microsoft SQL Server

Value pairs within the connect string are delimited by a semicolon (;).
Note: PRGRS_CO is a valid abbreviation for PRGRS_CONNECT.
Use the PRGRS_CONNECT parameter in the following cases:
Connecting a schema holder
• To establish complex connections that require more than the Physical Database
Name (-db), User ID (-U), and Password (-P) parameters, as follows:
CONNECT datasrc-name -ld logical-datasrc-name -dt MSS
-Dsrv
PRGRS_CO,DSN=datasrc-name;server=servername;UID=name;PWD=password;.
For datasrc–name, supply the name of the MS SQL Server database. Server is
a driver-specific keyword. The -Dsrv connection string is passed directly to the
data source. The DataServer does not modify this value.
• To connect to a MS SQL Server database whose name has a blank space, which
is not allowed by OpenEdge, substitute the characters &^ for the illegal characters
in the data source name. OpenEdge ignores datasrc–name when you use
PRGRS_CONNECT; however, you must supply it to pass syntax validation. Supply the
name as part of the connection string for PRGRS_CONNECT, as follows:
CONNECT datasrc-name -ld logical-database-name -dt MSS
-Dsrv PRGRS_CO,data-&^source&^name;.
• To connect to the MS SQL Server database using the ODBC driver as a guide,
specify an empty PRGRS_CONNECT, which tells the ODBC driver to handle the entire
connection process interactively. For example:
CONNECT datasrc-name -ld logical-name -dt MSS
-Dsrv PRGRS_CO,;.
To simplify your PRGRS_CONNECT string, you can specify a File DSN. When you
configure access to your MS SQL Server database, specify a File DSN and then
reference that file in your connect string. For example:
CONNECT datasrc-name -ld logical-name -dt MSS
-Dsrv PRGRS_CO,FILEDSN=dsn-filename;.
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