Data Source Connection (Epicor's Acclaim)

[sevens]

I'm trying to move our company over to Power BI, but I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried to connect to one of Epicor's legacy system, Acclaim. It's a DOS based system, and from what I know it uses Progress coding (at least that's what my IT department has said.) Has anyone else tried to connect to another database that uses progress coding? I need some help on deciding what data source to choose to connect to the database. Thanks! 

[v-chuncz-msft]

@sevens,

You may try using ODBC.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-connect-using-generic-interfaces#data-sources-acce...

[sevens]

So sorry for the late response. My IT guy and I have been trying to establish an ODBC using a pretty old driver (the only one available from our antiquated system.) We've tested the System DSN and the connection always comes back successful, but when I try to connect in Power BI I get the following error:

Our system is very old, which means the version of our driver OpenLink is very old as well. I doubt it can support the version required by Power BI. Is there any work around to connect to the database? I don't need anything that supports a live connection or direct query.