Need HELP with ODBC Environment

Hello I have problems with the environment variable DBDATE, when accessing a INFORMIX-SE databse through ODBC and I-Net. (ODBC=Informix CLI, I-Net=Informix Net 5.01.WF2) When reading a date variable from INFORMIX into a application i want to convert to dateformat (DBDATE = Y4MD0) to get the result (19961231). I have entered the settings DBDATE = Y4MD0 in setnet utility and the settings are correctly written to the informix.ini file in my windows directory. The database is an INFORMIX-SE 7.1 on SCO UNIX and when I use dbaccess and the UNIX environment variable DBDATE = Y4MD0 i get the correct result in a query. How do i get the correct settings when my ODBC application makes a SQLConnect ? Is the problem on the client or on the server ? Shall the UNIX deamon sqlexecd be started with some sort of configuration file ? Is there any environment variable that shall be set with the SQLAllocEnv ? Please I need help. Johan Andersson