I have very little knowledge of my own, but I did wield Google in a brief search for answers. This seems to be a problem which is specific to Microsoft ODBC, and not to Perl at all. Very few of the results had any solutions to offer -- the only one which seemed like it was possibly on the right track was this one. It also stands to reason that this is perhaps a permission problem of one sort or another, based on the "works in one environment, but not another" sympom.

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'