Element SQLEXECUTIVE.DRIVERS is undefined in REQUEST exception in Data Sources tab in Cold Fusion 2025

​@johnn82828435 : This happened after I installed all 6 patches for Cold Fusion 2025, in order.

I think that that is in fact the problem. The files and packages from the various updates might have got mixed up. It was unnecessary, and is risky, to install the updates one after the other.

It is sufficient to install just the most recent update. That is, Update 6. ColdFusion updates are cumulative.. Therefore, Update 6 effectively includes all the previous updates.

That suggests a possible way to fix the error:

1. Follow the instructions to uninstall Update 6 (preferably through the ColdFusion Administrator).;
2. Restart ColdFusion 2025;
3. Follow the instructions to install Update 6 (preferably through the ColdFusion Administrator).;
4. Restart ColdFusion 2025;
5. Check whether the issue has been resolved.

Thanks, Kevin, for moving the thread.

John, this sort of error can have different root causes. Let's consider a few:

1. After doing any cf updates, it's good hygiene to do what some of the update technotes refer to as clearing (deleting) the felix-cache folder. Can you first stop cf, then delete cf's cfusion/bin/felix-cache folder, then start cf (which will rebuild it), then test your datasource.
2. If that's not it, next how did you apply the update? Via the admin ui or via the command line? If the latter, did you have to download the jar and packages zip separately and apply those updates manually? If so, for the packages zip did you follow the steps shown in each update technote (for manual offline updating) completely? or did you try a shortcut (perhaps recommended by someone), such as to just extract the zip to cf's bundles/repo folder? That's NOT what the technote says to do, and it often leads to such problems of a package showing being installed but not working, as you're experiencing.
3. Next, did you confirm there were no errors in the log for each update you did? That's a best practice. Here’s what to look for, which is not obvious nor discussed in the technotes.
   1. There's an hf-updates folder with a subfolder for each (not those you skipped), with a log for the update (having a long name including when you did it). In that log there's a count of fatalerrors and nonfatalerrors which should be zero. And at the bottom (about 10 lines up) is a message about it trying to download package updates. Any errors there?
   2. Finally in the startup of cf, tracked in cfusion/logs/coldfusion-out.log, there's also an indication during the startup (after that update) of it first "uninstalling" each updated package, then it reporting each "started". Any errors there? Again, those often tie back to my point 2 above.

Let us know what you find. 

Not sure you are aware but you’ve posted this in the Photoshop forums. 

I’ve gotten past the SQLEXECUTIVE.DRIVERS exception when trying to open the Data Sources tab by updating Windows Server 2025 with all the latest patches. However now I’m getting a new error when trying to add an ODBC connection. Cold Fusion says ODBC isn’t installed but it IS installed, see screenshots.

Here are all the odbc files in my Cold Fusion directory:
 

C:\ColdFusion2025>dir/s/b *odbc*
C:\ColdFusion2025\bundles\odbcagent-2025.0.0.331385.zip
C:\ColdFusion2025\bundles\repo\odbcagent-1.0.zip
C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\datasources\jdbcodbc.cfm
C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\datasources\odbcsocket.cfm
C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\images\module_odbc.png
C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\setup\odbc.cfm

C:\ColdFusion2025>

Here’s the stack trace from exception.log:

"Error","http-nio-8500-exec-5","01/27/26","15:32:02","","Element SQLEXECUTIVE.DRIVERS is undefined in REQUEST. The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\datasources\index.cfm, line: 227"
coldfusion.runtime.UndefinedElementException: Element SQLEXECUTIVE.DRIVERS is undefined in REQUEST.
    at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.resolveCanonicalName(CfJspPage.java:2952)
    at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolve(CfJspPage.java:2825)
    at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolveAndAutoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:3101)
    at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._resolveAndAutoscalarize(CfJspPage.java:3052)
    at cfindex2ecfm568787232._factor12(/CFIDE/administrator/datasources/index.cfm:227)
    at cfindex2ecfm568787232._factor17(/CFIDE/administrator/datasources/index.cfm:187)
    at cfindex2ecfm568787232.runPage(/CFIDE/administrator/datasources/index.cfm:1)
    at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:251)
    at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:749)
    at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:578)
    at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65)
    at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:606)
    at coldfusion.filter.CspFilter.invoke(CspFilter.java:24)
    at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:43)
    at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40)
    at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:155)
    at coldfusion.filter.IpFilter.invoke(IpFilter.java:45)
    at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:97)
    at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
    at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
    at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:60)
    at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
    at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
    at coldfusion.filter.CachingFilter.invoke(CachingFilter.java:62)
    at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:233)
    at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:311)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:195)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:140)
    at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:46)
    at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:47)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:164)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:140)
    at coldfusion.filter.ModuleCheckFilter.doFilter(ModuleCheckFilter.java:104)
    at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:47)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:164)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:140)
    at coldfusion.filter.ClickjackingProtectionFilter.doFilter(ClickjackingProtectionFilter.java:84)
    at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:47)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:164)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:140)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:167)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:90)
    at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:483)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:116)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:93)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:74)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:356)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:398)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:63)
    at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:903)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1769)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:52)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1189)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:658)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:63)
    at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1583)
 

It looks like hotfix-002-331451.jar is causing the problem. See screenshots.