> Eric and Tom: thank you very much for your help, I
> will try your suggestions tomorrow at work.
> The sql statements are issued from a COBOL program,
> which can also issue the same statements to other
> databases (MySQL, MS SQLServer), so the first thing Im
> going to do is trying to change the encoding setup,
> which would be the most homogeneous solution that
> wouldn't interfere with the other databases, that
> currently handle well those strings with hexadecimal
> data.
>
> Thank u very much again!
> Luciano.
Just curious: what COBOL vendor/compiler are you using?
Merlin