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splunk db connect_informix table content messy code

jamesoptima
Engager

hi guys,
we use db connect to test informix database.but all the query result is messy code. i guess maybe is the charset issues. so how can we solve this issue? are there any guys met this problem before. it seems there are no place in splunk db connect web ui to set the charset?

jcoates_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Hi, it looks like you might be able to do some JDBC driver configuration to do this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14621963/fetching-wrongly-encoded-data-via-native-jdbc-informix-d...

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