Using outside DB handles

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My agency has a package that returns a DB handle.  Any access to the db
uses this package to connect, so any and all of our DB accesses pass
through a common configuration point.

It's worked wonderfully...until I try to implement CDBI.

Now I can have one master CDBI module and get the connections there, but
that's still one duplication, and we do have non-CDBI code out there.
The CDBI docs tell me how to insert my own handle, but wants that handle
to be an Ima::DBI.  

So I'm looking into the compatibility there.  Browsing Ima::DBI, it
appears that it will let me snag a handle out of it via db_*(), so I can
change the common DBH accessor to pull from an Ima::DBI if needed.  Does
anyone consider this a bad idea?  Does anyone have experience to share
here?

Thanks in advance
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        SwiftOne  /  Brett Sanger
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