Your reply intrigued me, so I changed the shebang line just to see what would happen. After a couple of changes ("EQ" to "eq", etc.), I get the following error message:

Can't call method "ct_execute" on an undefined value at /local/www/htdocs/scripts/pimgmt/nc_pf_58mainmenu.pl line 3717.

Here's the main script that calls various subroutines (notice no use strict; at this point in time but I'm hoping to change that once I dig in):

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5_8

use CGI;
use CGI ':standard';
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use vars qw($CGI);
use Sybase::CTlib;
$CGI = new CGI();

# Get parameters based on login, etc.
  &get_parms($CGI);

# When global employee id ($g_empid) is blank, 
# initialization routines are bypassed and you drop out.

if    ( $g_empid eq "" )
      { &valid_user;
      }

# Clear the STDOUT buffers so MIME can get out; print html headers

$|=1;
print "content-type: text/html\n\n";

# Display Campus Main Menu and begin main processing

&main_process;
[download]

And here's the subroutine where the error message is generated:

sub valid_user()
{
# INITIALIZATION STEP 1:
# Check system availability 

  &set_db_env;
  $get_results=0;
  $sql = "select STATUS
               , MESSAGE
            FROM $g_pfsec_db.dbo.NC_PF_STATUS
         ";

  $db_avail= new Sybase::CTlib $g_pfsecid,$g_pfsecpw,$g_pfsecsrv;

  $db_avail->ct_execute($sql) ;     <====THIS IS LINE 3717

  while ( $db_avail->ct_results($restype) == CS_SUCCEED )
        {

          next unless $db_avail->ct_fetchable($restype);

          while ( ($dbf_STATUS, $dbf_MESSAGE) = $db_avail->ct_fetch )
                {
                  $get_results++;
                  $app_status = "$dbf_STATUS";
                  if    ( $dbf_STATUS eq "U" )
                        {  $|=1;
                           print "content-type: text/html\n\n";
                           &top_hdrs;
                           &display_msg($dbf_MESSAGE);
                           exit;
                        }
                }
[download]

So, I dug around here for some answers... and have read a lot (the rods and cones in my eyes are going nuts staring at a white screen for so long). I'm getting the impression the database doesn't like how I'm speaking to it, but that's only a guess. Do I need to tweak something because of the new version of Perl? Thanks for any help you can provide! Lori

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.