You can use ODBC Connector to read data from and write data to any application that is ODBC compliant. You can also use ODBC Connector to read from or write data to Oracle Database Cloud Service.
Use an ODBC connection in mappings synchronization tasks, and mapping tasks to connect to sources, targets and lookups. You can write data to a flat file target.
You can switch mappings to advanced mode to include transformations and functions that enable advanced functionality.
Example
You want to migrate sales data from DB2 to Salesforce. You do not have a DB2 Connector to read sales data from DB2 source. You can use ODBC Connector to migrate sales data from DB2 to Salesforce.