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sevens
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8 years ago

Data Source Connection (Epicor's Acclaim)

I'm trying to move our company over to Power BI, but I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried to connect to one of Epicor's legacy system, Acclaim. It's a DOS based system, and from what I know it uses...
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sevens
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

So sorry for the late response. My IT guy and I have been trying to establish an ODBC using a pretty old driver (the only one available from our antiquated system.) We've tested the System DSN and the connection always comes back successful, but when I try to connect in Power BI I get the following error:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our system is very old, which means the version of our driver OpenLink is very old as well. I doubt it can support the version required by Power BI. Is there any work around to connect to the database? I don't need anything that supports a live connection or direct query.