Receiving the Error "Resource Not Available - Connect Error" Connecting to the Primavera P6 SDK (Doc ID 893951.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 21, 2018

Applies to:

Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management - Version 6.1 and later
All Platforms
***Checked for relevance on 20-Mar-2013***

Symptoms

Errors when connecting to the Primavera P6 SDK:

ODBC -- call failed

Run-time error '-2147467259(80004005)':
[ATI][OpenRDA ODBC]RDA error: Resource not available - Connect error: da=PMSDK;Driver=PMSDK;engine=PM;If=C:\temp\PMSDK.LOG;|o=ters;pg=1;pp=pubuser;pu=pubuser;.
Error returned from engine: VDB.Connect; hResult=0x80040003 (PMSDK_E_INTERNALERR: internal driver error); EOleSysError=Invalid return value from CreateAppVDB
Error number: 0x80040003 (#-2147221501)

Cause

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Invalid Connection Settings

The Primavera SDK is using different password encryption then other products in the Primavera suite. This can occur if a Service Pack has been applied to other Primavera products that connect to the Primavera P6 database, but the SDK has not been upgraded to the same version. The password will not be resolved correctly because the encryption method is different

User Privileges are not correct

SDK is being used with an application which is located in a folder with parenthesis and connecting to an Oracle database. This issue is common on 64 bit machines.

Invalid Connection Settings

The Primavera SDK is using different password encryption then other products in the Primavera suite. This can occur if a Service Pack has been applied to other Primavera products that connect to the Primavera P6 database, but the SDK has not been upgraded to the same version. The password will not be resolved correctly because the encryption method is different.

User Privileges

SDK is being used with an application which is located in a folder with parentheses and connecting to an Oracle database. This issue is common on 64 bit machines.

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