Re: DBD::DB2 with ActiveState Perl 5.12 on Windows

While I can't help you with building DBD::DB2, maybe as a workaround you can use DBD::ODBC on Windows to access DB2 through ODBC?

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Re^2: DBD::DB2 with ActiveState Perl 5.12 on Windows by Brutha (Friar) on Feb 03, 2011 at 13:43 UTC
That might be worth a try, but I have not much experience with ODBC. As a lot of existing scripts used DBD::DB2 successfully with Perl 5.8, that might not work via ODBC as we use functions, timestamp formating and the like. Another point is that DBD::DB2 (and underlying IBM Libraries) behave different for local and mainframe databases and I do not know what that means for ODBC. And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!" (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)	[reply]

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Re^2: DBD::DB2 with ActiveState Perl 5.12 on Windows
by Brutha (Friar) on Feb 03, 2011 at 13:43 UTC

That might be worth a try, but I have not much experience with ODBC. As a lot of existing scripts used DBD::DB2 successfully with Perl 5.8, that might not work via ODBC as we use functions, timestamp formating and the like. Another point is that DBD::DB2 (and underlying IBM Libraries) behave different for local and mainframe databases and I do not know what that means for ODBC.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!"
(Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)

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