> With all your messages, I for one am confused about what your problem is.
> If you are using IB 4.x, ?CommitRetaining and RollbackRetaining are
> implemented in IBO to *look* like soft commits and rollbacks,
> since IB 4.x doesn't support CommitRetaining.
> I don't know if this helps to explain your problem (whatever it is! :) )

I believe you meant to say that IB 4.x doesn't support rollbackretaining?
For that matter, neither did IB 5.x.

The API call to do a rollback retaining was not added until IB 6.
The API call to do a commit retaining has always been there.

Regards,
Jason Wharton
CPS - Mesa AZ
http://www.ibobjects.com