In answer to the other reply above, yes we are using Oraperl. I was told we could not upgrade anything on the box originally. However, I did identify the possibility that Oraperl is to blame and have found the right Unix admin to add DBD:Oracle to the system so we can use it. Unfortunately the box is on the other part of the world for us, so this takes time for us to implement. Admitedly this is one of my only foray's into Perl and I love what I see so far. I am a C++ / Java person and now this has my interest totally.

Thank you for support and helpful hints!

Akira

Is your current extract script either setting the vars I mentioned or inheriting them from the calling environment? for instance, if the job is running from cron, you will absolutely need to set this in the perl script. This is independent from the database setup, and your perl won't inherit the settings from Oracle. They will need to be in the calling environment (set perhaps in a calling shell script) or setting them specifically in the perl.

Actually they are inheriting them from the database so no, we are not setting them in the perl script. I can add the appropriate ones to the perl script.

I will try that and see if it helps.

Thank you,

Akira