title: SQL Server 2014 JDBC Drivers needed for IBM Maximo 7.5 / Websphere Installation
body: <p>Virgin post, please be gentle. :)</p>
  
  <p>First of all,
  I'm not even sure if this is the correct forum.</p>
  
  <p>TLDR: 
  My mission is to set up Maximo 7.5 with IBM Websphere / Microsoft SQL Server 2014.
  And I need the SQL Server 2014 JDBC Drivers</p>
  
  <p>--</p>
  
  <p>As above, during the installations,
  Websphere / SQL Server 2014 installed fine.</p>
  
  <p>However Maximo threw me this error at the end of the 2 hour-long installation:</p>
  
  <pre><code> "CTGIN2471E: An error occurred while trying to start the Application Server."
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The stack trace is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SEVERE: EXIT Exception caught while trying to register new JDBC Driver.com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
  Throwable occurred: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver
      at java.lang.ClassNotFoundException.&lt;init&gt;(ClassNotFoundException.java:77)
      at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:385)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:653)
      at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:619)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.common.config.database.ACfgDatabase.registerDriver(ACfgDatabase.java:785)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.common.config.database.SQLServer.&lt;init&gt;(SQLServer.java:347)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.common.config.database.SQLServer.getInstance(SQLServer.java:146)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
      at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:48)
      at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
      at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:600)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.common.config.DatabaseConfigFactory.getInstance(DatabaseConfigFactory.java:95)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.common.config.DatabaseConfigFactory.getInstance(DatabaseConfigFactory.java:50)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.common.config.TaskRunner.getConfigurationStep(TaskRunner.java:645)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.common.config.TaskRunner.addTask(TaskRunner.java:234)
      at com.ibm.tivoli.ccmdb.install.foundation.ccmdb.FndConfigurationAction.uninstall(FndConfigurationAction.java:1421)
      at com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.CustomAction.j(DashoA10*..)
      at com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.CustomAction.uninstall(DashoA10*..)
      at ZeroGbx.a(DashoA10*..)
      at com.zerog.ia.installer.Uninstaller.a(DashoA10*..)
      at com.zerog.ia.installer.Uninstaller.a(DashoA10*..)
      at com.zerog.ia.installer.Uninstaller.a(DashoA10*..)
      at com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.UninstallProgressAction.n(DashoA10*..)
      at com.zerog.ia.installer.actions.ProgressPanelAction$1.run(DashoA10*..)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried downloading and pasting the Microsoft JDBC Driver 4.0 for SQL Server jars in every Maximo installation "lib" folder I could find (during Maximo installation).
  But it did not solve the issue. </p>
  
  <p>Do I have to wait for IBM to release a patch? Or is this issue on the Microsoft side?</p>