Working with Interactive Reporting Database Connections

Interactive Reporting Studio provides a Database Connection Wizard to help you create new Interactive Reporting database connections. Before you create a new Interactive Reporting database connection files, collect and verify the following connection information:

Connection API software and version (for example, Essbase, SQL*Net for Windows NT, and so on)
Database software and version (for example, MetaCube 4, Oracle 8, and so on)
IP address, database alias, or ODBC data source name of database server
Database user name