"Art S. Kagel" <kagel@bloomberg.net> wrote in
newsan.2004.09.14.10.42.42.766059.1355@bloomberg .net:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:58:38 -0400, Tom wrote:
>
> As Jonathan suspects, the problem's not the database. I've tried all
> of your versions on IDS 9.4 and 7.31 and they all work just fine.
> There's something going on in your front-end.
>
> Art S. Kagel

Art,
My knee-jerk reaction was the same as yours, there's something going on in
the front-end, maybe with the client ODBC connection, configuration or
something else along that line. To take the front-end out of the picture,
telnet was used to run an editor, VI I believe, and ran the queries
directly against the DB, thus eliminating the client connection, VB,
Windows, etc and it still crapped out.

Life's a learning experience and this Informix is sure taking me to school
<s>. The one thing I can say about the database I'm pushing against is
that it is quick, cumbersome for me to work with, but quick.

Thanks so much for at checking this out, you confirmed my suspicion that
the queries will run in a different environment.