Essbase: Deploying an Outline from Essbase Studio Using Dynamically Generated ODBC Option, Getting Error(1021080): Driver descriptor not found in essbase.cfg (Doc ID 2488115.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 27, 2019

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Symptoms

When Deploying Outline from Essbase Studio using ODBC (Essbase dynamically creates ODBC connection string) option, getting below error:

Essbase Studio Server.log:

Failed to deploy Essbase cube.
Caused by: Failed to build Essbase cube dimension: (Scenario) .
Caused by: Essbase Error(1021080): Driver descriptor not found in essbase.cfg

Essbase Application Log:

[TimeStamp]Local/App/DB/admin@Native Directory/4012/Error(1021080)
Driver descriptor not found

[TimeStamp]Local/App/DB/admin@Native Directory/4012/Info(1021005)
Failed to Generate CONNECT string

[TimeStamp]Local/App/DB/<adminuser>@Native Directory/4012/Error(1021001)
Failed to Establish Connection With SQL Database Server.  See log for more information

Cause

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