Re: DBI/DBD::DB2

2006-06-24 Thread Dan Scott
On 24/06/06, Jonathan Leffler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip If you have a pre-compiled module, then I think your problem is the absence of DB2 Connect (IIRC) or its equivalent. snip The basic connectivity requirement for DBD::DB2 on

Re: DBD::DB2 execute and finish problem

2006-06-09 Thread Dan Scott
WAG here: will the DBD::DB2 driver implicitly finish the resources if you try calling $sth-fetchrow_array() again? I don't know if DBD::DB2 can know whether there are more rows left in the result set until you try fetching the next row, ergo it keeps the statement handle active. Dan On

Re: DBD::DB2 where to get a client library

2006-06-01 Thread Dan Scott
Hi Martin: You'll need the Application Development Client, which is a free download from http://ibm.com/db2/udb/support/downloadv8.html. The clients are installed as RPMs on Linux using the db2setup program (part of the client); you might want to check out the DB2 HOWTO

Re: DB2.pm for Perl 5.8 needed

2006-03-31 Thread Dan Scott
This is a nice thought, but the latest release of DBD::DB2 is actually 0.78 (released a long time ago), but ActiveState wasn't interested in updating their version of the package because DBD::DB2 prereqs the DB2 Runtime Client. Apparently ActiveState has made it a policy to avoid offering

Re: need DBD-DB2.ppd, DBI.ppd from www.esoftmatic.com, but server is unreachable.

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Scott
Seems to be working now for me: http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/ Dan On 31-Jan-2006 10:09:34 CET, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need DBI and DBD-DB2 packages for Activeperl, but esoftmatic server is unreachable. Can anybody help me with this problem or send me

Re: Connect to DB2

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Scott
Hi Vincent: You just need to install the DB2 development headers and libraries (available with the free to download and use DB2 Application Development Client) on your Linux box and set DB2_HOME before compiling DBD::DB2; that will enable you to connect from your Linux box to a DB2 server running

Re: Connect to DB2

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Scott
on windows box or? Thanks in advance On 1/5/06, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vincent: You just need to install the DB2 development headers and libraries (available with the free to download and use DB2 Application Development Client) on your Linux box and set DB2_HOME before

Re: anyway to determine # rows before fetch loop ends and without seperate count(*)

2005-11-16 Thread Dan Scott
On 11/16/05, Rob Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using DBD::mysql and I can get the number of rows by assigning the result of the execute to a scalar: my $rows = $sth-execute or die Couldn't execute statement: . DBI-errstr; maybe this doesn't work with DBD::Oracle? Rob When you

Re: error while trying to install DBI

2005-11-04 Thread Dan Scott
Strange -- just tried the exact same commands here and they worked as expected. Maybe there was a temporary FTP server glitch. Are you able to see the ftp.esoftmatic.com site? Dan On 11/3/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I just installed perl 5.8.7 from active state. (I

Re: ANNOUNCE: MySQL 5.0 now final/stable/GA

2005-10-25 Thread Dan Scott
Hi Darren: I think an update about the recommended minimum database version levels for your access modules is on-topic for this mailing list, but suspect that product advertisements are probably off-topic -- personal opinion, maybe, but I don't want to see this list become a dumping ground for

Re: bind_param_inout + DBD::ODBC

2005-10-12 Thread Dan Scott
DBD::DB2 (http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBD-DB2/DB2.pod) supports bind_param_inout, but it would require you to use the DB2 Connect Personal Edition or DB2 Connect Unlimited for iSeries to access iSeries from your Linux, UNIX, or Windows box. Dan On 10/12/05, Stephen More [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Help with DBD-DB2 and Windows...

2005-10-07 Thread Dan Scott
If you're willing to upgrade to Perl 5.8.x, then you can use the latest available version of DBD-DB2 from http://ftp.esoftmatic.com/DBI/ (it's okay to install the 5.8.4 version of DBD-DB2 on Perl 5.8.7). Dan On 10/7/05, Trent Ohannessian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I currently have Perl

Re: How to set language on DB2 on AIX

2005-09-25 Thread Dan Scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm now using Perl 5.005, DBI-1.15, DBD-DB2-0.75 on AIX 4.3. And like to upgrade them to Perl 5.8, DBI-1.48, DBD-DB2-0.78. Installation may be ok, but when I INSERT double bytes characters, I get the following error. [IBM][CLI Driver] CLI0109E String data

Re: DBD-DB2 install issue

2005-09-23 Thread Dan Scott
Dan Scott wrote: Alec Brecher wrote: My DBD-DB2 installation on Fedora Core 3 is failing because it cannot find libdb2.so.1. The Application Dev client is installed and works fine. The DB2_HOME=/home/db2inst1/sqllib I saw some post from Owen Berry on another list regarding this issue. His

Re: DBD-DB2 install issue

2005-09-22 Thread Dan Scott
Alec Brecher wrote: My DBD-DB2 installation on Fedora Core 3 is failing because it cannot find libdb2.so.1. The Application Dev client is installed and works fine. The DB2_HOME=/home/db2inst1/sqllib I saw some post from Owen Berry on another list regarding this issue. His fix: add

Re: DB2 Err Handling

2005-09-20 Thread Dan Scott
Tim Bunce wrote: On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 05:37:57PM -0500, johnn wrote: Capacio, Paula J wrote: my $stmt = 'select count(*) from sysibm.badTblnm '; my $sth = $dbh-prepare($stmt) or die Prepare Failed\n; DBD::DB2 doesn't seem to return false values for failures. If that's true then

Re: DB2 connection question

2005-07-19 Thread Dan Scott
On 7/19/05, Keith Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a project that I need to connect to a DB2 database on an AS400 from a perl application on a Linux box. I've been reading as much as I can but have a few questions for those with experience in a similar task. My options appear to be

Re: Problem running Perl DBD-DB2-0.78 on AIX 5.3 using the DB2 UDB v8.2 (on AIX 5.3) client libraries

2005-06-22 Thread Dan Scott
Chris: This sounds very much like the problem noted under Hints at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/perl/: Having trouble running perl with DB2 UDB Version 8 64-bit for AIX 5.2? Check out this technote.

Re: [dbi] DSN's

2005-06-02 Thread Dan Scott
For the DSN-less connections, see http://www.connectionstrings.com -- great resource. Dan On 6/2/05, Martin J. Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sharon, The string after ODBC: is usually a DSN name as in: DBI-connect(dbi:ODBC:mydsn,...) or DBI-connect(dbi:ODBC:DSN=mydsn) where mydsn

Re: SQL Problems : No suitable driver

2005-05-26 Thread Dan Scott
This is not the mailing list you're looking for. This mailing list is specifically about using the Perl DBI with the associated database drivers (for example, the DBD::DB2 driver, as documented at http://ibm.com/db2/perl/). If you want help calling Java applications from a shell script, you would

Re: DBI.ppd for 5.8.6

2005-03-15 Thread Dan Scott
There is an archive of older ActiveState Perl releases at http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl that includes 5.8.4. Dan On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:01:24 -0500, Marina Greenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, Any chance you will update repository with 5.8.6 binaries ? Or please let

Re: DBIx::DBH - Perl extension for simplifying database connections

2004-12-07 Thread Dan Scott
On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:53:38 +0100, Cosimo Streppone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tim Bunce wrote: I know what it does, I'm trying to find real examples that demonstrate why people think it's needed. Nick has provided a good one. Any others? Something like DBIx::DBH is in use in our

Re: DBD::DB2, Apache and mod_perl

2004-11-08 Thread Dan Scott
On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 15:17:34 +0100, Miroslav Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all! I'm using DBD::DB2 to access remote DB2 database on an AS400 machine. I've managed it to work from command line. But when trying to connect to remote database from a mod_perl application the $DBI::errstr is

Re: :ODBC with DB2

2004-10-08 Thread Dan Scott
Ben: DB2 automatically takes the user ID you logged in with and uses that as your default schema. You can issue the SET SCHEMA statement to change your default schema if you want it to be different from your DSN user ID. For example SET SCHEMA rick would automatically prepend 'rick.' to all of

Re: DBD::DB2 and Apache::DBI problem

2004-09-24 Thread Dan Scott
ricardo Guerra Flores wrote: Hi all... i'm having some problems trying to run a script that uses DBD::DB2 inside mod_perl and the Apache::DBI module, the program runs right when i execute it as a stand alone perl program. I've already set the ENV for db2home, db2instance, etc. in startup.pl This