Sqlstate = im004

[suityou01]

Puzzling this one. I need to connect Enterprise Architect to an ODBC data source so I can reverse engineer some tables into a diagram. Already lost a day on dicking about with the Oracle Client.

The error I am getting is :

"Unable to connect
SQL State = IM004
[Microsoft][ODBC Manager] Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed."

Popular solutions online include

1) Setting an environment variable for ORACLE_HOME. Done this.
2) Changing the folder permissions on the client_1 directory (and subfolders and child objects) to include read and execute permissions. Done this. Even added "Everyone" with full control out of desperation.
3) Adding the client_1 and client_1\bin directories to the path and trying in varying positions along the path string. Done this.


I am using Windows XP Service Pack 3.
I am using Oracle 11.2.0 client.
The version of sqora32.dll is 11.2.0.3

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Puzzling this one. I need to connect Enterprise Architect to an ODBC data source so I can reverse engineer some tables into a diagram. Already lost a day on dicking about with the Oracle Client.

The error I am getting is :

"Unable to connect
SQL State = IM004
[Microsoft][ODBC Manager] Driver's SQLAllocHandle on SQL_HANDLE_ENV failed."

Popular solutions online include

1) Setting an environment variable for ORACLE_HOME. Done this.
2) Changing the folder permissions on the client_1 directory (and subfolders and child objects) to include read and execute permissions. Done this. Even added "Everyone" with full control out of desperation.
3) Adding the client_1 and client_1\bin directories to the path and trying in varying positions along the path string. Done this.


I am using Windows XP Service Pack 3.
I am using Oracle 11.2.0 client.
The version of sqora32.dll is 11.2.0.3

Did you reboot after 2? (you need to for the environment settings to be reread its a lovely gotcha when dealing with oracle and windows).

[suityou01]

Did you reboot after 2? (you need to for the environment settings to be reread its a lovely gotcha when dealing with oracle and windows).

I did.

Cheers bud

[suityou01]

Victory. I scraped the client off my laptop using the special deinstaller tool you need to download seperately and run from the cmd line.

The instead of installing the client I installed ODAC, which installs the instant client and ODBC driver. That works.

So installing the Oracle Client, then upgrading the components to include ODBC using ODAC (which should work) was problematic for me in XP. Worked like a charm in windows 7 mind.