Tibco: Failed to find or load the JDBC driver

After upgrading to TibcoDesigner 5.7 (BW 8.9), my jdbc connections failed.

When I'd test I'd get this message:

Configuration Test Failed. Failed to find or load the JDBC driver: tibcosoftwareinc.jdbc.oracle.OracleDriver

https://www.tibcommunity.com/thread/16930?start=0&tstart=0 was a great thread for me to follow.

The answer that helped was:

Hi Vasanth,

As of TRA 5.7 the TIBCO (DataDirect) drivers are no longer bundled with the product. They are still supported though and may be used with BW 5.9. If you have previous TRA version installed such as 5.6.x, you can copy the necessary drivers from the /tibco/tpcl/5.6/jdbc directory to tibco/tpcl/5.7/jdbc. Alternatively the method I prefer is to add the /tibco/tpcl/5.6/jdbc directory to the end of the ‘tibco.env.STD_EXT_CP’ property in your BW/5.9/bin/bwengine.tra.

If you don't have an earlier TRA version I believe you are out of luck.

I hope this helps!

Nochum

Yeah