RE: SPL problem

OK, tried one workaround last night that seems to be working. Changed out the double quotes in the literal filters for single quotes and that is now working. The engine is no longer stripping the quotes out. So I changed: '... columnname = "valuestring" ...' -to- '... columnname = ''valuestring'' ...' Where the second version is actually two single quotes which are stripped to one single quote when it is saved in the query table. Now the cursor OPEN is not stripping off the quotes. Single quotes for literals is SQL standard, but I still don't understand why the engine stripped the double quotes for the Windows .NET client and not for the dbaccess Linux client. Well, I'll leave that for IBM. Art