Access denied using a PERL CGI script

I was trying to get my "example" PERL script (which still works in a shell environment) to behave as a CGI script with the added HTML tags to see if I can at least generate a web page with a table of data. The PERL script on its own generates a table with little trouble. At the moment, I am trying to trace an "Access denied" error to the database. It is a stubborn error, that persists whether the ownership of the file is root.root or informix.informix. Under STARTI dbaccess, I see the database (testdb@telepath) as "public". The owner of the process which runs netscape is "informix." If anyone has any ideas, let me know. Just for the record, I am not using the CGI module in Perl. I am using a much smaller "perl-cgi.pm" module that does just the basics. Paul King