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Data map and login |
The first thing you are to do after launching Dataodyssey Express application is to connect to a data source with the DATAMAP internal alias. If you launch Dataodyssey Express the first time, the DATAMAP source is probably not yet defined. You are to connect to any data source to which a faster connection can be established and which is physically the closest to the majority of the data to be analyzed. After connecting Dataodyssey will create all necessary system tables in this source. These tables are: data sources list; data model description; mission remote plan headers; mission remote plan dimension; remote mission details; aggregate columns of mission remote plans; list of remote reports; missions of remote reports; remote reports relations and others.
If you found a source for data map saving, you should know how to connect to it. The first thing you must have to connect is the user name and password. Type them in the dialog box and click “Edit connection properties”.
Then select the data source type and enter a valid connection string.
For example, if you are going to use a “DSP” database, located on a SQL server named “vallmind” (you can type the IP-address instead of the server name), the connection string will look like:
Driver={SQL Server}; Server=vallmind; Database=DSP; uid=<app_uid>; pwd=<app_pwd>
You can enter the user name and password right in the connection string, but that won’t be a very good idea from security point of view. According to special rules, use the syntax: <app_uid> and <app_pwd>. While connecting to the data source, Dataodyssey will substitute these two constructions for the user name and password, entered to log in the program.
Read about the methods of connecting to other data source types in this manual.
If the connection string is valid, the program will successfully connect to the data source, check existing system tables and create the absent ones.
After the
successful start of Dataodyssey Express, Gattaca window appears. It's used to
create and manage missions. If there are remote
reports, the program will pop up
a window with the list of them, suggesting that an end-user should immediately
start working with them.
