2174281 - SAP Lumira cannot connect to Teradata

• SAP Lumira gives Could not initialize class com.teradata.tdgss.jtdgss.TdgssManager when connecting to Teradata
  
  
  
• Or you see an empty error message box:
  
  
  
• Subsequent logon attempts trigger the following error message: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/teradata/tdgss/jtdgss/TdgssManager : cannot initialize class because prior initialization attempt failed
  
  
  
• Lumira Desktop trace logs records:
• java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
   at com.teradata.jdbc.jdbc.GenericTeraEncrypt.getTDgssVersion(GenericTeraEncrypt.java:640)
   at com.teradata.jdbc.jdbc_4.parcel.ClientConfigParcel.toStream(ClientConfigParcel.java:54)
   at com.teradata.jdbc.jdbc_4.io.TDPacket.addParcel(TDPacket.java:98)
  ...
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to enter a null monitor loaded from static field com.teradata.tdgss.jtdgss.TdgssConfigApi.doc
   at com.teradata.tdgss.jtdgss.TdgssConfigApi.GetMechanisms(TdgssConfigApi.java:141)
  ...
• java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/teradata/tdgss/jtdgss/TdgssManager : cannot initialize class because prior initialization attempt failed
   at com.teradata.jdbc.jdbc.GenericTeraEncrypt.getTDgssVersion(GenericTeraEncrypt.java:640)
   at com.teradata.jdbc.jdbc_4.parcel.ClientConfigParcel.toStream(ClientConfigParcel.java:54)
  ...
  Caused by: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
   ... 63 more
  Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to enter a null monitor loaded from static field com.teradata.tdgss.jtdgss.TdgssConfigApi.doc
   at com.teradata.tdgss.jtdgss.TdgssConfigApi.GetMechanisms(TdgssConfigApi.java:141)
  ...

• SAP Lumira Desktop
• Teradata 14 or 15 JDBC driver

1. Start SAP Lumira
2. Click File | Preferences
3. Click SQL Drivers
4. Click Teradata 15 - JDBC Drivers
5. Click Install Drivers
6. Browse to and select terajdbc4.jar
7. Click Open
8. Click Done
9. Click OK on "To apply driver changes, you must restart the application."
10. Shut down SAP Lumira
11. Start SAP Lumira
12. Attempt to connect to Teradata via Query with SQL

Teradata JDBC driver requires both "terajdbc4.jar" and "tdgssconfig.jar"

1. Start SAP Lumira
2. Click File | Preferences
3. Click SQL Drivers
4. Click Teradata 15 - JDBC Drivers
5. Click Install Drivers
6. Browse to and select both terajdbc4.jar and tdgssconfig.jar
7. Click Open
8. Click Done
9. Click OK on "To apply driver changes, you must restart the application."
10. Shut down SAP Lumira
11. Start SAP Lumira
12. Now you can connect to Teradata via Query with SQL

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