Instruction on how install Perl DBD on IBM AIX 5.3 Unix

It is challenging to install perl DBD on IBM AIX. There are several different ways to install and compile Perl DBD on AIX. Definitely check out the REAME file. I have tried many different ways, and the following steps actually got me through the complete installation without error.

First you need to install Perl and DBI. When setting environment variables, you should update the following according to your path.

Set the following environment variables:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/vacpp/bin
export ORACCENV='cc=xlc_r'
export LIBPATH=$LIBPATH:/a01/oracle/lib32:/usr/ccs/lib
export LD_RUN_PATH=/a01/oracle/lib32:/usr/ccs/lib

Run the following commands:

cpan

install T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.53.tar.gz

cpan

look P/PY/PYTHIAN/DBD-Oracle-1.22.tar.gz

perl Makefile.PL -nob

Run as root:
ln -s /usr/lib /lib32

export ORACLE_USERID=oracle_user/oracle_password@ccbprd

perl Makefile.PL -m $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo/demo_rdbms32.mk

perl -p -i -e 's/-q32//g' Makefile

make test

Now, if everything OK, run:

make install