The below is a repost of an issue posted on Microsoft Office community that went unresolved. It so happens that I have followed the EXACT same progression as the original author, Triskar did. Can anyone help us to make sense of the below? I heard there are smarter people over here in the Excel IT Pro forum!
I'm using PowerPivot in Excel 2010 using Office 64 bit.
From the PowerPivot window in Excel 2010, and using the IBM DB2 data source I get an error:
The 'DB2OLEDB' provider is not registered on the local machine.
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Failed to connect to the server. Reason: The 'DB2OLEDB' provider is not registered on the local machine.
If I then click the "Advanced" button, I can change the provider to IBMDA400. If I test the connection, this succeeds. However, when I click "OK", this reverts back to DB2OLEDB, and the test connection fails again. If I use the data source OTHER(OLEDB/ODBC), and select IBM DB2 for i IBMDA400 OLEDB provider, or Microsoft OLEDB provider for ODBC drivers, the test connection succeeds, and I can write a query to retrieve data with no problem. The option "Select from a list of tables and views to choose the data to import" however returns the error message:
No tables were found in the data source. Check the connection information and login credentials.
Please could someone suggest what I am doing wrong? I'd like to switch our company's BI from IBM Cognos to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 plus PowerPivot from Excel, but I can't expect business users to write SQL queries to get their data into PowerPivot, so I really need to get the tables for them somehow.
Thanks guys,
Mike