Resolution ========= If both Designer and BW use JRE 1.6, you need to use the ojdbc6.jar for the Oracle thin driver. Make sure the JAR is in Designer and the BW classpath. You also need to set the trust store and key store using the following properties in designer.tra and bwengine.tra:
Test connection. If the connection fails with the error, "java.sql.SQLException: IO Error:Received fatal alert bad_record_mac", you should change the security vendor to j2se using the property:
java.property.TIBCO_SECURITY_VENDOR=j2se
Issue/Introduction
JDBC connection over SSL fails in Designer. Error:java.sql.SQLException: IO Error:Received fatal alert bad_record_mac