Howdy: This is probably a silly question. Let's say that I want to pull data from a remote database (say, NT or Mainframe).
For DB2, am I to understand that I need to install client software package, connect to that client and THEN run the perl DBI::DB2 mods to get data from the remote DB2 server? Is this the same for Oracle? I am guessing that it is, because when I installed the Oracle DBD, it asked about the ORA_HOME path ... but I don't recall doing this for PostgrSQL ... *shrug* ... What I don't get (and this is why I'm lurking in the beginners mail list), is why can't I just find what the remote server is and connect directly to it rather than having to deal with client software and, perhaps, authentication problems and identifying the node that I want a connection from. Of course, I could be way off in my own world of make believe (most likely) and could use a primer in this as well. Any thoughts? -X
