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3381615 - DB2 as a HANA DB SDA remote source for BW error: No authorized routine named "NVARCHAR" of type "FUNCTION" having compatible arguments was found

Symptom

A non-unicode DB2 database is configured as the remote source for BW and an error like below is encountered:

"A database error occured.
The error message in the database was:
"internal error: Error opening the cursor for the remote database [IBM][CLI Driver][DB2/LINUXX8664] SQL0440N  No authorized routine named "NVARCHAR" of type "FUNCTION" having compatible arguments was found.  SQLSTATE=42884
for query "SELECT ..."

In order to fix the issue you are following the workaround provided in SAP Note 2625817 but unable to locate the $DIR_EXECUTABLE/config/property_db2.ini file.


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Environment

SAP HANA, platform edition 1.0
SAP HANA, platform edition 2.0
Smart Data Access
IBM Db2

Product

SAP HANA, platform edition all versions

Keywords

DB2, SDA, FUNC_to_nchar, FUNC_to_varchar, FUNC_to_nvarchar , KBA , HAN-DB-SDA , SAP HANA Smart Data Access , Known Error

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