[Microsoft][ODBC Text Driver] In the file specification '...', the Col1 option is invalid.

I'm trying to connect to a tab-delimited text file using the ODBC data access. I set it up using Administrative Tools - Data Sources (ODBC) from the start menu, and clicked the 'Guess' button under Define Format.

The schema it created looks like this:

[cims_output_data.txt]
ColNameHeader=True
Format=TabDelimited
MaxScanRows=0
CharacterSet=OEM
Col1=SIMNAME
Col2=TIMESTAMP
Col3=SIMTYPE
Col4=REGION
Col5=SECTOR
....etc.

It looks OK, but if I go back to Define in Administrative Tools and try to review it, I get a similar error message:

Ini File (or Registry) C:\Program Files\CIMS\schema.ini is corrupt.
Section: cims_output_data.txt, Key: Col1.

Has anyone seen this before? There is nothing on MSDN as far as I could find. I read on another forum that if you replace the label 'Col1' with 'Col' the problem is solved but it still reports that the schema is corrupt when I try to open it in Administrative Tools.

Bill.

Hi Bill,

Could you try specifying the types of your columns in the schema (i.e. Col1=SIMNAME string...)?

I hope this helps,

John Gordon (MSFT)

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John

thanks, I tried that. The funny thing is switching the "Col1" label to "Col" really does solve the problem so I am just going with this solution and ignoring the fact that the ODBC configuration editor says the schema is corrupt.

Bill.