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The Perl application is now deployed. You can see the subdirectories in the
specified location. The Perl application is placed in the bin subdirectory of the
specified location. You can proceed the application testing. Example 4-48 shows
that our application, itso_perl_papp.pl, ran on the target system connecting to a
remote database successfully.
Example 4-48 Verifying deployed Perl application
$ cd /home/perl_dep/perl_deploy/bin
$ perl itso_perlapp.pl mensa 50001 test db2inst1 password
Trying to establish connection...
Connection successful.
Closing connection...
Connection closed.

4.7.5 Help and support

You can seek assistance for any problem related to use of DBD::DB2 by sending
your queries at opendev@us.ibm.com.
4.8 .NET
The Microsoft .NET framework is the new runtime framework on Windows. The
framework is included in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, while it is an
installable component for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.
The framework consist of two parts:
򐂰An extensive library:
The library consists of pre-coded solutions to address common programming
problems and manages the execution of programs written specifically for the
framework.
򐂰Common Language Runtime:
Applications written to the .NET framework are compiled into intermediate
code, called managed code. The Common Language Runtime provides the
appearance of a virtual machine and executes the managed code.
The .NET platform supports a wide range of languages such as J# and C#. The
.NET framework is not supported on any other platforms than Windows.