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The Adobe Commerce ODBC Driver is a powerful tool that allows you to connect with live Adobe Commerce data, directly from any applications that support ODBC connectivity.

Access Adobe Commerce like you would a database - read, write, and update Customers, Inventory, Products, Orders, etc. through a standard ODBC Driver interface.

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Connect to Adobe Commerce Data from PowerBuilder


This article demonstrates how to use the CData ODBC Driver for Adobe Commerce to connect to Adobe Commerce data and execute queries in PowerBuilder.

The CData ODBC Driver for Adobe Commerce can be used from any platform or development technology that supports ODBC, including PowerBuilder. This article shows how to connect to Adobe Commerce data and execute queries from the Database Painter and controls such as the DataWindow.

Connect to Adobe Commerce as an ODBC Data Source

If you have not already, first specify connection properties in an ODBC DSN (data source name). This is the last step of the driver installation. You can use the Microsoft ODBC Data Source Administrator to create and configure ODBC DSNs.

Adobe Commerce uses the OAuth 1 authentication standard. To connect to the Adobe Commerce REST API, you will need to obtain values for the OAuthClientId, OAuthClientSecret, and CallbackURL connection properties by registering an app with your Adobe Commerce system. See the "Getting Started" section in the help documentation for a guide to obtaining the OAuth values and connecting.

You will also need to provide the URL to your Adobe Commerce system. The URL depends on whether you are using the Adobe Commerce REST API as a customer or administrator.

  • Customer: To use Adobe Commerce as a customer, make sure you have created a customer account in the Adobe Commerce homepage. To do so, click Account -> Register. You can then set the URL connection property to the endpoint of your Adobe Commerce system.

  • Administrator: To access Adobe Commerce as an administrator, set CustomAdminPath instead. This value can be obtained in the Advanced settings in the Admin menu, which can be accessed by selecting System -> Configuration -> Advanced -> Admin -> Admin Base URL.

    If the Use Custom Admin Path setting on this page is set to YES, the value is inside the Custom Admin Path text box; otherwise, set the CustomAdminPath connection property to the default value, which is "admin".

Create a Profile for the ODBC Driver for Adobe Commerce

Follow the steps below to use the Database Painter tool to create a database profile based on an ODBC DSN (data source name) for Adobe Commerce. In the Database Painter, you can use wizards and the UI to work with Adobe Commerce data.

  1. In PowerBuilder, click Tools -> Database Painter.
  2. In the Objects window in the Database Painter, right-click the ODBC node and click New Profile.
  3. On the Connection tab, enter a name for the profile and select the Adobe Commerce DSN in the Data Source menu.
  4. To view and modify a table, right-click a table and then click Edit Data -> Grid.

Using Adobe Commerce Data with PowerBuilder Controls

You can use standard PowerBuilder objects to connect to ODBC data sources and execute queries. The following example shows how to retrieve Adobe Commerce data into a DataWindow. You can add the following code to the open method:

SQLCA.DBMS = "ODBC" SQLCA.DBParm = "ConnectString='DSN=CData Adobe Commerce Source'" CONNECT USING SQLCA; dw_products.SetTransObject(SQLCA); dw_products.Retrieve();