ODBC Connection via CDatabase fails with connection string from previous succesfull connection - c++

Question

I'm a bit clueless at the moment what the problem is with this code.
It trows a exception of type CDBException when trying to connect with the given ODBC Connect String and never comes back from .OpenEx - the lower message boxes never display.
There is a message from the ODBC Driver that states that the DSN isnt specified and that no default driver is found.
The Message Box that shows the connect string gives a good looking string - as it should, coming from a working connection
ODBC;DSN=DBTEST;Trusted_Connection=Yes;APP=XXX;WSID=NEUROMANCER;DATABASE=master;
Same problem when using SA/Password for the connection
ODBC;DSN=DBTEST_PW;UID=SA;PWD=password;APP=XXX;WSID=NEUROMANCER;DATABASE=master;
After reading other posts I added "DRIVER=" to the beginning and "SERVER=localhost;" to the end but that changed nothing. Resulting tested connection strings where
DRIVER=ODBC;DSN=DBTEST;Trusted_Connection=Yes;APP=XXX;WSID=NEUROMANCER;DATABASE=master;
DRIVER=ODBC;DSN=DBTEST;Trusted_Connection=Yes;APP=XXX;WSID=NEUROMANCER;DATABASE=master;SERVER=localhost
DRIVER=ODBC;DSN=DBTEST_PW;UID=SA;PWD=password;APP=XXX;WSID=NEUROMANCER;DATABASE=master;
DRIVER=ODBC;DSN=DBTEST_PW;UID=SA;PWD=password;APP=XXX;WSID=NEUROMANCER;DATABASE=master;SERVER=localhost
I also made sure to use the 32bit ODBC Admin tool to generate the system DSNs for the 32bit application.
If I replace "CDatabase::NoOdbcDialog" with "0" it opens the ODBC-Dialog again as if informations necessary to open the connection are missing.
db.OpenEx(NULL, CDatabase::forceOdbcDialog);
CString cstmp;
if (db.IsOpen()) {
cstmp = db.GetConnect();
db.Close();
}
MessageBox(cstmp, _T(""), MB_OK);
if (db.OpenEx(cstmp, CDatabase::noOdbcDialog )) { //Exception here CDBException at 0x004FDD9
MessageBox(_T("Connection success!"), _T("Connection"), MB_OK);
db.Close();
}
else {
MessageBox(_T("Connection failed!"), _T("Connection"), MB_OK);
}
Can anyone tell me where my problem is?