[ale] OT: Querying DB2 on an AS400 via Perl on a Linux appliance

[Robert L. Harris]

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  I'll see if I can find anything through ibm.com but I only have
hardware support.

  We tried a while back letting the customers export and upload but that
had problems all it's own...

Robert


On 3/22/12 9:06 AM, Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>> a Linux appliance that connects out to a DB2 database running on an AS400.
>>
>> At work we have a new customer and haven't worked with DB2/AS400 before
>> and that combination with Perl is a bit hard to find practical
>> information on.
>
> I'm remote.. but I've done this many moons ago using ADO I think.
> IBM's website is prety good and deep, but not well google'd because you
> have to have a login for lot of information.
>
> I think I have tossed DB2 magazines with examples for PHP and Perl, I know
> it's possible.
>
> Often though, it's easier for the DB2 system to export CSV or fixed length
> text, and import that.
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