[tpm] Sybase Open Client library

[Todd Rinaldo]

I maintained a Perl distro including Sybase at a former employer. If I recall correctly, the Sybase client libraries are easy to get ahold of from Sybase.

Todd

> On Oct 19, 2016, at 5:46 PM, Tom Legrady <legrady at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Perl program => DBD::Sybase => DBI => some binary libXXX.so file that actually communicates to the host where the DB is located
> 
> 
> It's the binary file which I need to find.
> 
> 
> freeTDS has worked at least partially. I also downloaded Sqsh, a wonderful command line SQL client, and it connects fine to dev & prod databases. ONly problem with it is that while I can run sqsh -i filename to run the sql in the file, I can't do sqsh -C 'select * from ... ' It tells me there's no data for -C.
> 
> 
> DBD::Sybase is failing to build, which I'll investigate tomorrow, but progress is progress,  so they say.
> 
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 2016-10-18 10:05 PM, James E Keenan wrote:
>> On 10/18/2016 09:46 PM, Tom Legrady wrote:
>>> I'm migrating the Perl 5.6 code from a Solaris platform to Linux Redhat.
>>> The problem is that for the moment, I need to continue connecting to a
>>> Sybase OCS 12.5 DB. I've looked online for the library, I asked Michael
>>> Peppler, auther of DBD::Sybase, and I've talked to SAP online help
>>> person, all with no results. We've sent a request to our DB Admins, but
>>> we don't officially use Sybase, this is only a Dev box, and DB support
>>> has been outsourced to HP, so odds of a helpful response are low.
>>> 
>>> Does anyone have access to what I need to install, to connect to a
>>> Sybase DB?
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Could you be a bit more specific about the problem you're currently facing?  What have you tried and how is it failing to work?
>> 
>> In what sense is http://search.cpan.org/~mewp/DBD-Sybase-1.15/ insufficient?
>> 
>> (Not that I know anything about Sybase, you understand.)
>> 
>> jimk
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