Use this procedure to download, install, and configure Perl for use with the Management Console on UNIX and Linux.
The ora_ph_type parameter in <bf-install>/db.ini must be set to a value that does not cause the driver to strip trailing blanks. The setting ora_ph_type=96 is recommended. If set to a value that strips trailing blanks (for example, SQL_VARCHAR), you see an error when running Build Forge: DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("BLDFORGE"."BF_RESULT"."BF_ENV") The problem does not occur with Oracle 10.