To connect to your database, you may need to customize the settings on the ODBC Data Source. However, SBM will set the ODBC Data Source to the default settings every time you click Apply in SBM Configurator.
Beginning in SBM 11.3, you can run an import option set from the command line, allowing you to schedule imports or start an import from within another script.
This utility when run just uses the same ODBC connection that SBM uses so it's just testing the connection by running the following sql statement and shows how long it took to run. The utility basically takes SBM itself out of the equation when trying to troubleshoot why the app itself might be slow. In this customer case they could run the same query in the Oracle Developer Tools in a fraction of the time that this utility was able to.
