Damon, that's a pretty slick work around. Does it convert everything to unicode though?

Wayne as for the PTF, we did some reseach and once that PTF is...

Try downloading the Feature Pack from Microsoft and using their drivers to connect to DB2.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50B97994-8453-4998-8226-FA42EC403D17&displaylang=en

This has worked for me since I could not get the IBM drivers to work correctly...