use DBI;
my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:ODBC:NAME','user','pass') || die $!;

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I'd be happy to leave this away and use the dsn

	dbi:ODBC:servernode=192.168.1.2;serverdb=MYDB

or something similar, but I didn't get this working. Perhaps someone at SAG can help?