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Relativity and connection string

  • July 1, 2016
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Working with a developer to access Cobol data via Relativity from Visual Basic applications and I am being asked for the connection string or dll that needs to be used. I know I need to use the ODBC connection for Data Client ADO, but I am being asked for an example of others that have this step already working. Can anyone give me a small piece of sample code with a connection string?  Thanks.

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Thomas Morrison
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  • July 6, 2016

Working with a developer to access Cobol data via Relativity from Visual Basic applications and I am being asked for the connection string or dll that needs to be used. I know I need to use the ODBC connection for Data Client ADO, but I am being asked for an example of others that have this step already working. Can anyone give me a small piece of sample code with a connection string?  Thanks.

reldbm32.chm

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  • July 6, 2016

Working with a developer to access Cobol data via Relativity from Visual Basic applications and I am being asked for the connection string or dll that needs to be used. I know I need to use the ODBC connection for Data Client ADO, but I am being asked for an example of others that have this step already working. Can anyone give me a small piece of sample code with a connection string?  Thanks.

Interesting Tom - I don't have that file.  I have the relcs and the relsad entries but not the reldbm


Working with a developer to access Cobol data via Relativity from Visual Basic applications and I am being asked for the connection string or dll that needs to be used. I know I need to use the ODBC connection for Data Client ADO, but I am being asked for an example of others that have this step already working. Can anyone give me a small piece of sample code with a connection string?  Thanks.

It's installed with the data manager and should be here: C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Micro Focus\\Relativity Data Manager\\reldbm32.chm. 


  • July 8, 2016

Working with a developer to access Cobol data via Relativity from Visual Basic applications and I am being asked for the connection string or dll that needs to be used. I know I need to use the ODBC connection for Data Client ADO, but I am being asked for an example of others that have this step already working. Can anyone give me a small piece of sample code with a connection string?  Thanks.

Thank you Uwe.  I had been looking under the Data Client folder.


Working with a developer to access Cobol data via Relativity from Visual Basic applications and I am being asked for the connection string or dll that needs to be used. I know I need to use the ODBC connection for Data Client ADO, but I am being asked for an example of others that have this step already working. Can anyone give me a small piece of sample code with a connection string?  Thanks.

Great!  Glad I could help.