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Third-Party JDBC Drivers

If you want to connect to sources and targets through JDBC, install and configure a JDBC Type 4 driver from a third-party vendor.
To import metadata in the Developer tool, copy the third-party JDBC driver jar file to the following location:
<InformaticaInstallationDir>\clients\externaljdbcjars
To run data previews, profiles, or mappings, copy the JDBC driver jar file to the following location:
<InformaticaInstallationDir>\externaljdbcjars
Update the CLASSPATH environment variable to include the fully qualified path to the JDBC driver.