You wanted me to do this, right?

else { 
    print "ok 7\n";     
    ($sth->err == 208)                  
        and print "ok 8\n"
            or print "not ok 8\n";
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Same result - "not ok 8"

Michael had an offline discussion with someone from Sybase. They suggested that I try building the "firstapp" Open Client sample program and change the select to a non-existent table (to trigger a 208 error), to see if I get the msg text. I did that, and here's the output:

Server message:
        number(5701) severity(10) state(2) line(0)
        Server name: SQLLAM01
        Changed database context to 'master'.

Server message:
        number(208) severity(16) state(1) line(1)
        Server name: SQLLAM01
        pubs2..authors not found. Specify owner.objectname or use sp_h
+elp to check whether the object exists (sp_help may produce l.
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Since I see the message text, I'm guessing that my Open Client installation is working fine. Does that mean it's a Perl or DBI::Sybase problem?

Thanks.

We finally (after much searching) found the problem.

DBD::Sybase detects that it is being built in a 64bit mode, and in that situation adds -DSYB_LP64 to the compile line. This is needed to get proper 64bit mode for Sybase's libraries and include files - except on Tru-64/OSF-1/Dec Unix!

Removing the -DSYB_LP64 fixes the problem. I'll add the appropriate change to the Makefile.PL for the next release.

Michael