Some ODBC applications display a logon dialog box when you are connecting to a data source.

Figure 1. Logon to Teradata dialog box

The Logon to Teradata dialog box

In this dialog box, provide the following information:

  1. Select an alias name or IP address of a Teradata server from the DBC Name or Alias drop-down list. The choices for this list are determined by the entries in DBC Name or Alias and DBCName List on the General tab of the driver Setup dialog box.
  2. Select the Integrated Security check box to enable the user to connect to the database through Single Sign On (SSO) using one of the authentication mechanisms that support SSO. In this case, User Name, Password, and Domain are not required and are not available fields.
  3. If you do not use Integrated Security, select a value from the Security Mechanism drop-down list to specify the authentication mechanism used for connections to the data source.
  4. Type a string of characters in the Security Parameter field that is to be regarded as a parameter to the authentication mechanism. The string is ignored by the ODBC driver and is passed on to the TeraSSO function that is called to set the authentication mechanism.

    The characters [] {} () , ; ? * = ! @ must be enclosed in curly braces.

  5. Other options that are displayed on the Logon Dialog box depend on the authentication mechanism selected. See the descriptions of these options under Security Mechanism.
  6. Type the domain name for Third Party Sign On along with the username and password. If a domain name is not provided, then the local domain is assumed.
  7. Optional. Type a default Teradata database.
  8. Optional. Type an account string to be used during the creation of a user account in the Teradata Database instead of providing account information during configuration of ODBC.
  9. Click OK to complete the logon and to update these values in the Registry.