> Hello Alan,
>
> After weeks of tracing and debugging, I found out
> it fails only in a special sequence and brought it to
> Jason's attention. I expect it might cause intermittent
> problems somewhere else.
>
> Hans
>
> CREATE TABLE TEST (
> A12345678901234 INTEGER NOT NULL
> , B123456789012345 INTEGER NOT NULL
> ) ====> Fails .. Metadata extract fails with bogus error
>
> CREATE TABLE TEST (
> A12345678901234 INTEGER NOT NULL
> , B12345678901234 INTEGER NOT NULL
> ) ====> Does not fail
>
> CREATE TABLE TEST (
> A123456789012345 INTEGER NOT NULL
> , B12345678901234 INTEGER NOT NULL
> ) ====> Does not fail
>
>

I can create this table and extract the metadata without error using
IBExpert and ISQL.
Are you sure you are not just using a script component in IBO to find this
error?
Alan