sorry, didn't realize i was logged out for the earlier post.. Tried that but eval didn't capture it. Against my better judgement I put in a 'die' statement next to the execute statement and that seems to work! I would prefer not to have an error handler within an error handler but unfortunately I've burned way too much time troubleshooting 'eval's failrue to capture the error.

    eval {
        $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:ODBC:$DSN");
                ...
    
        $sth->execute() or die "Execute Failed: $!";
        $dbh->disconnect();
    };
    if($@) {        
        print "DB Failure: $@";
    }
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