All, Looking through a JDBC trace file I see the following SEVERE message, does anyone know what it means. 08-Sep-2009 14:47:38 oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleCallableStatement registerOutParameter INFO: OracleCallableStatement.registerOutParameter(paramIndex=2, sqlType=12, scale=0, maxLength=-1) 08-Sep-2009 14:47:38 oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CCallableStatement allocateAccessor SEVERE: oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CCallableStatement.allocateAccessors:return: oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CVarcharAccessor@19616c7, statement=oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CCallableStatement@b166b5, outBind=true, internalType=1, internalTypeMaxLength=32512, isStream=false, formOfUse=1, internalOtype=null, externalType=12, internalTypeName=null, columnName=null, describeType=0, describeMaxLength=0, nullable=false, precision=0, scale=0, flags=0, contflag=0, total_elems=0, describeOtype=null, describeTypeName=null, rowSpaceByte=null, rowSpaceChar=null, rowSpaceIndicator=null, columnIndex=0, lengthIndex=0, indicatorIndex=0, byteLength=0, charLength=32513 Thanks Fred -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l