Perl Install of PDF:API2 on USS/zOS

Have a customer who wants to use the PDF:API2 and I download it from CPAN (PDF-API2-2.043.tar.gz). I am not sure how install it to USS on z/os. I know there is a CPAN shell but what I tried doesn't seem to work. Any help would be grateful.

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Jeff Greene
SYS PROG
State of Oregon
Salem OR US
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Hi Jeff,
Installation via CPAN might work for some Perl packages, but we officially doesn't support it. If you are interested to try it out, we would recommend to follow community documentation. 
I am delighted to say that there are about 40 Perl modules in our portfolio (see appdev_manifest_1.3.txt files) and we might consider its extension if the request comes from a customer with support contract.

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Tatiana Balaburkina
Rocket Internal - All Brands
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Have a customer who wants to use the PDF:API2 and I download it from CPAN (PDF-API2-2.043.tar.gz). I am not sure how install it to USS on z/os. I know there is a CPAN shell but what I tried doesn't seem to work. Any help would be grateful.

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Jeff Greene
SYS PROG
State of Oregon
Salem OR US
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I took the tar.gz file and uncompressed it which made the directories and files. This is on z/os 2.4 USS. I can to converted all the files from ASCII to EBCDIC. I run a simple .pl 


# Create a blank PDF file
$pdf = PDF::API2->new(NEW);

But I get this

# perl pdf.pl
Invalid [] range "+-." in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^([+-. <-- HERE 0-9]+)/ at /lib/PDF/API2/Basic/PDF/File.pm line 783.

Not sure what is wrong and I can the first question is will PDF:API2 run in zos USS or do I have something wrong. Any help would be grateful.

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Jeff Greene
SYS PROG
State of Oregon
Salem OR US
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I took the tar.gz file and uncompressed it which made the directories and files. This is on z/os 2.4 USS. I can to converted all the files from ASCII to EBCDIC. I run a simple .pl 


# Create a blank PDF file
$pdf = PDF::API2->new(NEW);

But I get this

# perl pdf.pl
Invalid [] range "+-." in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^([+-. <-- HERE 0-9]+)/ at /lib/PDF/API2/Basic/PDF/File.pm line 783.

Not sure what is wrong and I can the first question is will PDF:API2 run in zos USS or do I have something wrong. Any help would be grateful.

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Jeff Greene
SYS PROG
State of Oregon
Salem OR US
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Hi Jeff,
It might be a good idea to run this module an another platform with the same version of Perl to check if the problem persists.

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Tatiana Balaburkina
Rocket Internal - All Brands
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Hi Jeff,
It might be a good idea to run this module an another platform with the same version of Perl to check if the problem persists.

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Tatiana Balaburkina
Rocket Internal - All Brands
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Thank you for the suggestion but that is not feasible. 

My question is there any support for this. Does Rocket Software support provide any? Or is there another forum I can see some guidance?

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Jeff Greene
SYS PROG
State of Oregon
Salem OR US
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Thank you for the suggestion but that is not feasible. 

My question is there any support for this. Does Rocket Software support provide any? Or is there another forum I can see some guidance?

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Jeff Greene
SYS PROG
State of Oregon
Salem OR US
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Hi Jeff,
Rocket does provide support for number of ported open-source tools and Perl packages. At the moment, PDF::API2 Perl module is not included in our portfolio. However, it is possible that we will port and support this module if the request comes from a customer with support contract. You can learn more about our support offering on this page.

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Tatiana Balaburkina
Rocket Internal - All Brands
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