On our test apps server we have used perl CPAN to install SOAP::lite and are using a cgi program to call a web service.  We have not come across any issues with this impacting existing Lawson utilities. 

Does anyone have experience with using CPAN to add to Lawson's perl install or know of potential concerns for us to investigate?

Is there a way for me to determine what perl programs exist in Lawson so we can test them specifically?

We are on AIX 6.1 64-bit Websphere 7 Environment 9.0.1.4 Apps 9.0.1.2

Hi Deborah,

It's been awhile

Are you using ActiveState Perl?  We use it here, except we're a windows shop.  You can use the "ppm list" or "ppm query *" to what all modules are currently installed.

We recently added the Authen::SASL module using the ppm GUI utility in Windows, defined in this document: http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.10/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html

We haven't run into any problems installing CPAN modules, and actually that is where ActiveState Perl recommends getting new updates.

To install from the commands line, you can do something like: ppm install

Hope this helps,

Randall

Deborah:

You can determine which Perl environment is loaded in your scripts by the path that is referenced at the beginning of the perl script, e.g. /usr/bin/perl.

The actual Perl installs should be in /opt. In some installs, the perl binary is referenced as /usr/bin/perl
And sometimes that is a symbolic link that points to the /opt/perl installation.

What I see shops do is install newer versions of perl to /opt, then load the environment as /opt/perl5.10/bin/perl to their scripts.

This way the standard perl environment is left alone. Having said that installing a CPAN module should not cause you any problems. For UNIX installs I use perl -MCPAN -e shell . You can google this syntax, there should be plenty out there.

For installed modules your install should have instmodsh

instmodsh
cmd? l

Cheers!