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.
