ESQL error messages for BLOBs

I am running IDS.2000 under Linux and am trying to access BLOBs via ESQL. However, when I try to call ifx_lo_create, the function returns an error with the error code -9810. However, I looked this up in the error codes, and the docs said "For more information, check the accompanying, detailed smart-large-object error code"! I don't know of any other error codes for this function. rgetlmsg() returns the same error message as above. Does anyone know how I can get more information regarding my error? Any help wouldbe greatly appreciated. A code snippet of what I'm trying to do is below. EXEC SQL BEGIN DELCARE SECTION; fixed binary 'blob' ifx_lo_t dataVal_in; EXEC SQL END DELCARE SECTION; int8 colSize; ifx_lo_create_spec_t *colSpec; char *colDataColName = "myserver@mydb:mytable.mycolumn"; ifx_lo_def_create_spec(&colSpec); ifx_lo_col_info(colDataColName, colSpec); ifx_int8cvint(COL_DATA_LEN, &colSize); ifx_lo_specset_estbytes(colSpec, &colSize); ifx_int8cvint(COL_DATA_LEN+2048, &colSize); ifx_lo_specset_maxbytes(colSpec, &colSize); if(ifx_lo_create(colSpec, LO_NOBUFFER | LO_RDWR, &dataVal_in, &blobErrCode) { // returns above error rgetlmsg(blobErrCode, errString, ERR_STRING_SIZE, &j); } thanks, Matt