Connection to Wincc OLEBD provider

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We are struggling with building a connection from Ignition to the WinCC OLEDB provider to get alarms and alarmconfigs out of WinCC (v7.5)
As far as I know there is no such a thing as a WinCC OLEDB for Ignition or jython, nor can I find how to build a connection to provider of WinCC
Our collegues from WinCC suggested to build a ADO-connection in a script so they could use the same format queries/connection string as they use in scripting in WinCC, but I can't figure the whole thing out.

Any idea how we can build this connection?

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You might have luck standing up a SQL Server instance and then creating a linked server to this WinCC OLE DB.

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Hi Kevin, that was also one of our tries.
Unfortunately does WinCC change their dataconnectionname (database) each time the project is compiled. :pensive:
So, to make sure we're connecting to the right DB, the connection string should be dynamic...