Perl -7008 Error

["Jonathan Oei" <JonathO@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am trying to write a perl script to do database access to
> a DB2 database on an AS/400.  (I have about 75 perl scripts
> running on a production UNIX box, and want to move some of
> them to this platform.)
>
> If I just do database SELECTs, everything works fine.
> (So that tells me that perl is installed correctly, [5.00502]
>  and DBD [ 0.74 ] and DBI [ 1.06 ] are also up and running.
> Other vitals are OS/400 V4R4, DB2 database running BPCS.)
>
> If I try to do an update, I get a -7008 error:
>   <table> in <library> not valid for operation.
>
> If I create a journal (database logging) for the table, then
> everything works fine.  
>
> I have tried playing with the AutoCommit switch:
> $dbh->{AutoCommit} having values 0 and 1
>
> and it doesn't seem to help.
>
>  So, how can I use perl to update a BPCS table?  What is the 
> impact of journalling the BPCS tables?  How big is the performance
> hit of journalling?


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