Re: oraperl, os2 and oracle 7

In <1994Dec22.075840.212_at_wmdhh.wmd.de>, bruening_at_wmd.de writes:
>In <PARKER.94Dec20151816_at_fcs6090.fcs.ford.com>, parker_at_fcs6090.fcs.ford.com (Jeffrey D. Parker) writes:
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>>Howdy. Has anyone gotten oraperl for OS/2 to work with version 7 of Oracle
>>yet? This is something I could find very useful since my DBA tells me we
>>are moving away from Oracle 6.
>>
>>If nobody has done it yet, would anyone that has done it for other platforms
>>maybe help me out by telling me what I would need to do. I would certainly
>>be willing to try the port myself if I had a clue where to start.
>
>Is there an OraPerl for OS/2 available??? Where?
>
>
> Arne
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Arne:

There *is* an oraperl for OS/2 (and perl itself too) available (don't know about its quality though). Try  

      ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/32bit/unix/oraperl2.zip

Basically all of the GNU-stuff is available for OS/2, even various GNU-compilers.

If ORACLE was to support OS/2, then they could make all of our lives a *lot* easier, either by providing a REXX-interface (as they do for the IBM mainframes) or by supplying a REXX-interfaced ODBC- or IDAPI-driver.

Just look at the direct REXX-interface of IBM with their DB/2 for OS/2 (which becomes better and better); I never have experienced an *easier* way to interface with a relational database. Given all the Visual REXX-development environments for OS/2 this would be even more attractive. I have been hoping of ORACLE becoming WARPed, instead they seem to loose another year or more concentrating all their resources to Windows. :-(

Great support for OS/2 on the above mentioned ftp-site (in effect it is the home site of the Walnut Creek CDROM company, the bestselling OS/2-CD-ROM of theirs is called "Hobbes"-CD-ROM, named after the very first big OS/2-ftp-site on hobbes.nmsu.edu).

---rony Received on Thu Dec 22 1994 - 19:59:06 CET