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hershkoy

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Registered: 2021-10-06

Firebird driver missing

Hi. I am new to ReportServer, and I am trying to connect to a Firebird database (32bit)
I am following this post in the socumentation:
https://reportserver.net/en/guides/scri … tasources/

I installed the bitnami 3.7.1 windows x64 community addition.

When going to add a data source, I am getting a message that Firebird driver is missing.

According to last post in
https://forum.reportserver.net/viewtopic.php?id=1427
says that firebird should have been supported out-of-the-box.

Is there something that I need to do in order to connect to my database?

I tried following the instructions described here:
https://reportserver.net/en/guides/scri … tasources/
using jaybird-4.0.3

I have put
- jaybird-4.0.3.java8.jar
- lib/connector-api-1.5.jar
in
C:\Bitnami2\reportserver-3.7.1.6046-1\apache-tomcat\webapps\reportserver\WEB-INF\lib

(how do I restart the report server afterwards?)

I don't understand this sentences in the tutorial:
"Beware, that after restarting ReportServer hooks attached from the terminal will no longer be present. To automatically attach a hook on start-up put the script in the bin/onstartup.d directory in the fileserver."
What are the hooks, and where is the onstartup.d folder?

Last edited by hershkoy (2021-10-06 10:32:44)

hershkoy

Member

Registered: 2021-10-06

Re: Firebird driver missing

I managed to connect to the firebird.
I have put
- jaybird-full-4.0.3.java8.jar
- lib/connector-api-1.5.jar
in
C:\Bitnami2\reportserver-3.7.1.6046-1\apache-tomcat\lib

Found the tomcat service in "task manager -> services" tab, stop and restart it
the database connection url has this syntax:
jdbc:firebirdsql://localhost:port/C:/Path/To/Database/File.FDB

Last edited by hershkoy (2021-10-07 13:06:38)