On 8/27/2012 3:55 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 01:42:20PM -0600, Harry Jamieson wrote:
On 8/27/2012 12:07 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 08:41:45AM -0600, Harry Jamieson wrote:
Environment:
IBM AIX 5.3.
Perl 5.8.8 now linked to its 64-bit libraries.
64-bit compiled test simple 0.98
64-bit compiled MakeMaker 6.48.
We didn't discover that IBM had shipped our AIX with Perl pointed to
the 32-bit version until after we had already installed DBI, and now
that we find that we must use DB2 instead of MySQL, we are forced to
try to re-install everything under 64-bit. We have re-linked Perl
to 64-bit and we were successful at re-installing test simple and
makemaker under 64-bit.
Did you use perlbrew (http://perlbrew.pl/) or use the defaults?
Do you have to use a perl version that's over six years old?
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.622;maxver=1
shows the last report for DBI from a cpan tester on AIX was for 1.609
And http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBI%201.609;reports=1;os=aix
shows only 1 pass and two fails, and those were for perl 5.10.1
(the pass report looks like it's for a 64-bit system).
Environment:
IBM AIX 5.3.
Perl 5.8.8 now linked to its 32-bit libraries.
32-bit compiled test simple 0.98
32-bit compiled MakeMaker 6.48.
Tim, thank you for your reply. We have Perl 5.8.8 installed on the
machine right now, and it has been pointed back to 32-bit. The
matrix that you gave me seems to show that I should update that to
at least 5.10.1 and then try to install 1.609 of DBI.
You can't really draw firm conclusions from a single data point.
What version of DBD::DB2 would go along with that?
I've no idea. The cpantesters matrix doesn't look helpful
http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=DBD-DB2;maxver=1
The cpantest with the one pass and two fails was under AIX 5.1, and
we have AXI 5.3. I'm hoping that that will make a positive
difference.
I am new to perl and had never heard of perlbrew before. I will
download it once the machine has finished TRYING to bring my DB2 up
to 8.2 so that I can load DBD::DB2. Right now, I'm zcating the DB2
fix pack and getting lots and lots of garbage on my screen. :( And
yes, I FTP'd it direct from IBM in binary. I'll keep you up to date
on my progress.
I can't help much beyond perl and DBI. (It's been many many years
since I've even seen an AIX machine and I've never used DB2.)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21297335
Perhaps open...@us.ibm.com can help.
Good luck.
Tim.
We're going to be able to just call IBM with problems like this soon,
and I really didn't expect you to help me with a fixpak install. :)
I've repeated the download process in case a 0 got flipped to a 1 or
something, and will try it again here shortly.
Harry
