Insight requires a connection for each data source from which you want to export or import data. Scribe provides adapters for leading business applications and common interfaces such as ODBC, OLE DB, XML, and Web Services.
If no Scribe adapter is available for the data source you need to connect to, you can export that data to a format that TIBCO Scribe® Insight can access. Many applications and databases have an export feature that allows you to output data to text file. TIBCO Scribe® Insight can then connect to text files through an ODBC driver.
For example, if you are loading data from a legacy system that does not allow you to connect through the Workbench, you can "dump" your result set(s) out of the legacy system into a flat file. Then define a connection to the specifications of the flat file, and develop the DTS using the flat file as the source.
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