HELP: Informix 5, Varchar / Char types / Powerbuilder 4

The Informix 5 varchar type can onle be 255 characters long while the char type can be mutch longer. In a database we first had a vanchar field and converted that to char to enlarge the field to 4096, somehow the database comes back with an error when we try to insert a record with text longer then 255 characters the message we get is: -280 This is the meaning of -280 from the informix help file: "-280 A quoted string exceeds 256 bytes. Somewhere in this statement there is a character literal that exceeds the maximum allowed. Inspect the statement, checking the punctuation and length of all quoted strings. Possibly two quotes are missing, making a long string out of two short ones. If you intended to use a string of this length, you will have to revise the statement. There is no means for writing such a long character string in an SQL statement. " How can we solve this, according to the table configuration this field is 4096 bytes long! Please HELP! (i'm in despere) Thanks, Hans Nieuwenburg ____________________________________________________________ message from : Hans.Nieuwenburg@cmg.nl \\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/ \\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\/ DataBases | Programming | Optimizing | DocumentManagement | WorkFlow ____________________________________________________________ CMG Finance | Laan van Kronenburg 14 | 1183 AS Amstelveen Tel : 020-5033000 ____________________________________________________________