[Fwd] perl-ldap on OS/390 ?!

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 08:45:11 +0200
To: gb...@po...
From: "R. Reucher" <ren...@cp...>
Subject: perl-ldap on OS/390 ?!
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Hello Graham,

I don't know who is the right person to contact (within the project), so
I'm contacting you...

I'm trying to get your Perl LDAP module (0.23) working under OS/390 (the
"UNIX" side), but am having some serious trouble. I suspect it's caused
due to missing EBCDIC <-> ASCII conversion (as OS/390 is a pure EBCDIC
platform). I've written a short perl script to test perl-ldap (taken
from the Net::LDAP man page); it works fine under Linux (i386), but
fails with "No such object" on line 9 under OS/390:

 1: #!/usr/local/bin/perl
 2: use Net::LDAP;
 3: $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('ldapsrv.ourdomain.com') or die "$@";
 4: $ldap->bind(dn       => 'cn=Directory Manager, o=OurCustomer',
 5:             password => 'xxxxxxxx');
 6: $mesg = $ldap->search(base   => "o=OurCustomer",
 7:                       filter => "(uid=*)");
 8: $ldap->unbind;
 9: $mesg->code && die $mesg->error;
10: foreach $entry ($mesg->all_entries) { $entry->dump; }

Note that I have to use perl 5.005p03, because that's the latest stable
version with EBCDIC support (5.6.x doesn't support it, 5.7.x is beta -
as I need the LDAP support for a serious project for one of our
customers, I decided to use the "stable" version).

I already tried several things to convert the ASCII data to EBCDIC
(using the iconv utility) without success. What do you think: which data
needs to be converted at which point(s) ?

Or is there any experience using perl-ldap under OS/390 already ?

Would perl 5.7.x help in some way ?

Sorry for all these questions, but I definitely need some help here. I'd
appreciate any hints or advises, thanks in advance !

Regards, 

Rene
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