The ORA_NLS33 environment variable is used by Oracle client programs to locate localization files. When running DirectConnect for Oracle, the ORA_NLS33 environment variable should not be set.
If it is set and it points to an invalid directory, users might receive the following error message when connecting to DirectConnect for Oracle:
Msg 12705, Level 16, State 0:
Server 'DCRMFDCP_TEST':
ORA-12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified
CT-LIBRARY error:
ct_connect(): protocol specific layer: external error:
The attempt to connect to the server failed.