AHHH okay, thank you for the information, that was very valuable. Here is what I found for $hashref within the script. It only shows up on line 49 and line 55. 

47 # OUTPUT returns true/false that the specified db2 configuration fi
+le could be processed appropriately     for the given action.
 48         my $log_pre = whatsub();
 49         my ($action,$hashref,@type_order) = @_ or (warn "$log_pre 
+Invalid arguments" and return 0);
 50
 51         # Iterate over the configuration types listed in @type_ord
+er
 52         foreach my $type (@type_order) {
 53                 print "$log_pre running $action for $type entries\
+n";
 54                 # Iterate over all items of that type
 55                 my $type_hash = $hashref->{$type};                
+      #shortcut to smaller hash
 56                 foreach my $item (keys %{$type_hash}) {
 57                         print "$log_pre running $action for $type 
+$item\n";
 58                         my $item_hash = $type_hash->{$item};      
+      #shortcut to smaller hash
 59                         #Add values for type and action into the h
+ash
 60                         $item_hash->{'name'} = $item;
 61                         $item_hash->{'type'} = $type;
 62                         $item_hash->{'action'} = $action;
 63                         #print Dumper($item_hash);

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In reply to Re^4: Not a HASH reference error by briandanderson1977
in thread Not a HASH reference error by briandanderson1977

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