Perl on AIX 5.3 Oracle11

Question

How do I get the oracle installed perl to work on AIX Oracle11 - 11.1.0
I tried:
perl -e "use DBI; \$drh = DBI->install_driver('Oracle');"
install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load '/oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi-64all/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so' for module DBD::Oracle: 0509-022 Cannot load module /oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi-64all/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so.
0509-150 Dependent module /oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/lib32/libclntsh.so could not be loaded.
0509-103 The module has an invalid magic number.
0509-022 Cannot load module /oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi-64all/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so.
0509-150 Dependent module /oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi-64all/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.so could not be loaded. at /oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/lib/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi-64all/DynaLoader.pm line 229.
at (eval 3) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
at -e line 1
From my environment I set:
PATH=/oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/sbin:/usr/ucb:/usr/bin/X11:/sbin:/usr/java14/jre/bin:/usr/java14/bin:.:/usr/local/bin:/oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/bin
ORACLE_HOME=/oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit
PERL5LIB=/oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/lib/5.8.3:/oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/aix-thread-multi-64all
LIBPATH=/oracle/app/oracle/doit/product/11.1.0/oradoit/lib32

Answer 1

I have never found the PERL delivered with Oracle to be usable.
Most likely because I don't know enough to make it work.
I have always installed my own PERL along with DBI & DBD to be able to access Oracle from Perl
Are you sure that DBD has been successfully installed & is operational under the Oracle s/w tree?
#use strict;
use CGI::Carp qw{fatalsToBrowser};
use DBI;
@data_sources = DBI->data_sources('Oracle');
$i = 0;
while (defined $data_sources[$i]) {
  print ("-->$data_sources[$i]\n");
  $i++;
}$ perl testDBD.pl
-->dbi:Oracle:EXTPROC_CONNECTION_DATA
-->dbi:Oracle:V102
-->dbi:Oracle:v102
It essentially reports contents of tnsnames.ora
I suspect this will throw errors for you.
Edited by: sb92075 on May 29, 2009 6:50 PM
Edited by: sb92075 on May 29, 2009 7:13 PM