TNS entry error when trying to connect to a database using DS in order to import the table definition?

This usually indicates that either the DataStage userid running the job does not have read access to the Oracle run-time client files, or that the environment variable ORACLE_HOME is not defined.


ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve service name
The above  error indicate that the connection identifier or service name specified in the DataStage job (or in the ORACLE_SID environment variable or ODBC definition) was not known to either the Oracle client or the Oracle server. The connection/service identifiers known to the Oracle run-time client are defined in the tnsnames.ora file, $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora
Verify that the identifier specified for the failing Oracle connection has been defined in tnsnames.ora. If it is correctly defined, then next verify that the ORACLE_HOME environment variable is correctly defined, and that tnsnames.ora file has correct read permissions.
If the above items are configured correctly, also check the listener.log on Oracle server to confirm that the service id (or the database it maps to) are known to the Oracle server.
Setting up environment variables required to use Oracle run-time client
The Oracle client requires that the following environment variables be defined. These should be set in the .dsenv file in the DataStage DSEngine directory.

ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle
LIBPATH=$LIBPATH:$ORACLE_HOME/lib:
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin

Change the path defined for ORACLE_HOME to the correct path for your system. ORACLE_HOME should be set to the absolute path to the home Oracle directory which is the directory level directly above the lib and bin directories.

Please also note that the name of the library path environment variable varies with different operating systems:

• AIX - use LIBPATH
• Solaris - use LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• HP-UX - use SHLIB_PATH
• Linux - use LD_LIBRARY_PATH