otijim,

You will need to purchase ODBC drivers for HPUX. Also check to make sure you have the ANSI C libraries for HPUX, this is also something that has to be purchased (the included HPUX compiler is not ANSI standard, it will essentially compile a kernel). You will also need to be sure that all the 4GL libraries (esql?) for informix are also installed. (and there is (used to be) a required install order with informix, with 4GL requiring to be installed prior to Informix itself.

In a previous lifetime, I attempted to get Perl, DBI and Informix to play together, but experienced numerous problems getting DBI compiled (DBD/DBI, HPUX and Informix seemed to be inherently problematic at the time, based on dbi-user posts). You'll likely benefit from subscribing to the dbi-users maillist.

My story ended sadly perl-wise, I never got it working and had to use 4GL for my work. I hope your story has a much happier ending!

good luck!

In reply to RE: ODBC and UNIX by wardk
in thread ODBC and UNIX by otijim

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • 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! —
  • 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:
    & &amp;
    < &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.