Maybe the best thing that you could do, and what I would do, is to talk to the Powers That Be who have decided that "Perl is a non-approved tool" and maybe even get someone from Informatica to talk to them as well about why Perl is non-approved and why Informatica considers it worthy of being their extension language?

I have worked with both Perl and Informatica, but not "together", although it shouldn't be too hard, the external -program calls from Informatica work fine with shell scripts. The basic utility of Perl that I see in this situation is as a complex filter.

As for the proprietary and open-source together approach, it only really becomes a problem, as I see it, when you intend to distribute, and I suspect that you don't.

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"That that is, is... for what is that but that? and is but is?" Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act IV, Scene 2

"Yet THAT which is not neither is nor is not That which is!" Frater Perdurabo (pseud. Aleister Crowley), Liber CCCXXXIII, The Book of Lies

In reply to Re: Perl and Informatica, or, Applications, like curves, may be open, closed, both, or neither by poqui
in thread Perl and Informatica, or, Applications, like curves, may be open, closed, both, or neither by adamsj

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