Thanks! You helped me solve it! It was a namespace problem. I ran your test and there are 1353 subs in main. Then I printed the package name at the top of the lib file, db2access.pli. It was not "main", it was "FR_html_tools", which it had inherited from a PM file. I printed out the subs in FR_html_tools and there were all the missing subs, including the one I need, &DB2QUERY. Now I can call the sub with it's namespace; FR_html_tools::DB2QUERY() and the cgi script finds it fine. Thanks again. There are many PM files in this code and it's hard to keep track of all the package names.

In reply to Re^4: Namespace debugging advice by dorianwinterfeld
in thread Namespace debugging advice by dorianwinterfeld

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