Configuring the ODBC driver

After installing the ODBC driver, configure it to connect to your ServiceNow instance and to communicate through a proxy server, if applicable, and set properties to control ODBC behavior.

• Configure the ODBC driver
  Configure the ODBC driver to connect to your ServiceNow instance.
• Configure the global DSN default
  Configure the global default used by all newly created DSNs.
• Create a new DSN
  Use the ODBC driver and the ServiceNow data source to create an unlimited number of DSNs configured to connect with different instance URLs.
• Specify a connection string
  You can specify a connection string instead of defining a DSN.
• Configure the logging level of the ODBC driver
  Change the logging level of the ODBC driver.
• Configure the ODBC driver for large data sets
  You can set two ODBC driver properties to deal with errors you receive when using queries that return large amounts of data.
• Configure ODBC to use proxy servers
  The ODBC driver can be configured to route its HTTP SOAP requests via an HTTP proxy server.
• Setting ODBC properties
  The following properties customize connectivity and optimize the query behavior of the ODBC driver.

Parent Topic:Create data sources from other apps using ODBC driver