Setting up Teradata DataSource in WSAD 5.1.2

Has anyone had any luck?

I need to setup a 5.0 data source with connection pooling to Teradata.

I established a Teradata JDBC provider pointing it at the com.ncr.teradata.TeraConnectionPoolDataSource class in the terajdbc4.jar file from NCR.

I then added a 5.0 data source, but I don't have or know of a Data Source Helper class for Teradata.

The options listed are:
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.DB2UniversalDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.DB2DataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.DB2AS400DataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.DB2390DataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.DB2390LocalDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.CloudscapeDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.CloudscapeNetworkServerDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.InformixDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.SybaseDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.OracleDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.ConnectJDBCDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.WSConnectJDBCDataStoreHelper
com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.SequeLinkDataStoreHelper
But none of those seem to work for Teradata.

I then set up the properties:
DSName, user, and password each with a type of java.lang.String

Ultimately I am getting an issue in the javax.naming.InitialContext.lookup when its trying to open the JNDI reference.
[ November 05, 2004: Message edited by: Stacey Roach ]

In case anyone needs a tutorial on this, here is what I did.

I downloaded and installed the latest JDBC drivers from Teradata/NCR (version 3.01.00.08).

I edited my local hosts file (c:\\WINNT\\system32\\drivers\\etc\\hosts) and added two aliases to the server.

127.127.127.1 example1
127.127.127.1 example1cop1

I then created a JDBC provider within the Data Source tab of the .wsi screen for WebSphere. I pointed the implementation class at com.ncr.teradata.TeraConnectionPoolDataSource and added both jar files within the class path.

Then I created a JNDI 5.0 data source and used com.ibm.websphere.rsadapter.GenericDataStoreHelper as the Data Source Helper Class.

Then I added three properties, each of type java.lang.String: DSName, user, and password. DSName points to the entry in the hosts file. When I didn't do this, I kept getting an error about "default transaction mode" which I found a KB article about. Apparantly the cop1 entry is mandatory or something.

Now I had all of this setup for a few hours and still couldn't get it to work...it would fail on the executeQuery statements with a null pointer exception. This was a problem with a version of the driver (fixed in 3.01.03 (reference: DR84904)) which seemed to be a problem I was causing myself (multiple copies of different jars loaded at once while trying to debug).