I'm trying to use DB2's EXPORT function to dump out a portion of a database table. The command works fine from a DB2 prompt, fine from a shell script, but fails from a Perl script with the vague (to me, anyway) error, Database error: No such file or directory at foo.pl ..

My SQL is along the lines of 

export to trans15 of del select trans_id, time from foo.bar fetch firs
+t 15 rows only

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with schema and table names anonymized.

If someone has pointers on what I'm doing wrong, I'd appreciate it.

Update: Sorry, replaced $script with a non-variable script name foo.pl. Just trying (perhaps a little too hard) to anonymize my work.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to OT: Failing to export from DB2 by talexb

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