Hi, I've been researching the feasibility of accessing Filemaker Server through ODBC/JDBC from PERL on Linux, and seem to have drawn a blank.  There seem to be no Filemaker ODBC drivers for Linux.  One article I found said that it is possible with JDBC, but before I start reading about that, I just wanted to check that it's definitely impossible to access FMS from PERL/Linux using ODBC.

 

Many thanks,

 

 

Yep, JDBC it is on Linux...

 

I'm sure the ODBC driver for OSX can be hacked to work on Linux but that obviously would not be supported.

Thanks Wim!

I have progressed much further with this. My firewall counts a hit on port 2399 each time I run my test script. I think I might have a driver or config problem though:

Expecting tag 0x73875f, found 0x32 at /usr/local/share/perl5/Convert/BER.pm line 379.

Not sure what you are asking.... port 2399 is the FMS xDBC port so it's normal that you'd see a hit there.

I guess I was saying that the error I am experiencing isn't preventing the connection to the server from being attempted.

We now have PERL scripts running on Linux inserting data into Filemaker Server through JDBC.  This was done using the Inline Java PERL module and Java Runtime Environment for Linux.