On Monday, October 26, 2020 11:47:54 AM EDT David Nicol wrote: > if the Oracle module is maintained by red hat, yum update should > help. If you built it in-house, you may need to yum update the perl > development environment and reinstall.
This is good advice. The original poster also should make sure the Oracle C-API libraries are still installed properly on the client machine. It's impossible to really tell from what the original poster wrote what the code that is running is doing. (The code he posted is a shell script that executes the actual code, which is unknown to us.) But... It probably is DBD::Oracle running under DBI. That is the preferred, simple, and reliable way to access Oracle databases from Perl. There is no need to complicate things with an intermediate Java program. Just use the direct interface to the Oracle C-API -- DBD::Oracle. (I have used Perl DBD::Oracle for over 20 years on many different operating systems and releases with zero problems.) The error the original poster is getting is probably due to the DBD::Oracle module never being updated to the new RHEL release. Fixing it may require recompiling by hand, using CPAN. (I do not know if RHEL has an already-built DBD::Oracle module available from their repositories. I install from CPAN -- that is compile -- in Fedora.) -- Garry T. Williams
