Problem with Intersolv Datadirect 3.11

Actually, the problem goes all the way back to the 2.8 CLI Drivers. If I create a table with a char(2048) field and an int field and then try to do a select statement with the char field being the first column, ODBC chokes on it. I can select the int field first and all works fine. This is easily reproducible and I want to know why no one has run into this yet and how to get it fixed. create table t1 ( c1 char(2048), i1 int ) select c1, i1 from t1; --- Fails only on windows client. select i1, c1 from t1; --- Works as expected. I haven't quite figured out what the size of the first char field must be to make it fail, but a sufficiently large one seems to do the trick. And of course, I need a sufficiently large one. :) The workaround is just to change the order of the fields in the select, but when you are trying to dynamically build select statements this is easier said then done. I believe it to be an ODBC driver problem because I can use dbaccess and it works fine. I can also use PowerBuilder which goes straight to I-Connect and it works fine. Using VB or Access to link the table I get the error every time. I have tested this using 2.8 CLI, 3.01, 3.10, and 3.11 Intersolv drivers all with the same results. My database engine is Informix 7.x. Paul Yurga pyurga@lucent.com