Odbc 8309 - Invalid Function

[TS_M5]

Hi All,

With FM9 & ODBC (DataDirect 32-BIT SequeLink 5.5) driver, the following SQL statement worked (using MS Access):

SELECT Employees.Name, LCase([state]) AS Expr1 FROM Employees WHERE LCase([state])="ca"

Since FM is case sensitive, I have to force searches using lower case (same would work for upper case). All was working fine. Now the client has upgraded to FM 11 with the new ODBC drivers (Filemaker's own ODBC 11.2.70.0) and the same statement no longer works from Access and I get the message that LCase is an invalid function (#8309).

Has anyone else received this error or similar with another function especially after upgrading past v9? What are the workarounds? I can't use 'lower' or 'upper' as they aren't recognized in MS Access. Shouldn't the ODBC driver be translating lcase to lower, etc? Note that without the WHERE clause, the SELECT statement does return lowercase States!

Thanks,

T