I get the following error while trying to connect to sybase using DBArtisan XE. However, I can successfully connect using trial version of Rapid SQL 8.1.0 to the same server.

08:53:33.821	DBMS	SYBGEM1 -- Layer (1), Origin (1), Severity (1), Number (46) ct_bind(): user api layer: external error: An illegal value of 25 was placed in the datatype field of the CS_DATAFMT structure. (0B32EDD0)

I am using a windows XP machine with Sybase driver version 3.11
I am able to connect to the database using SQLAdvantage from the same machine. 
Any ideas?

> {quote:title=Rajendra Grandhe wrote:}{quote}
> I get the following error while trying to connect to sybase using DBArtisan XE. However, I can successfully connect using trial version of Rapid SQL 8.1.0 to the same server.
> 
> 08:53:33.821	DBMS	SYBGEM1 -- Layer (1), Origin (1), Severity (1), Number (46) ct_bind(): user api layer: external error: An illegal value of 25 was placed in the datatype field of the CS_DATAFMT structure. (0B32EDD0)
> 
> I am using a windows XP machine with Sybase driver version 3.11
> I am able to connect to the database using SQLAdvantage from the same machine. 
> Any ideas?

Hi Rajendra,

I had the same error connecting to Sybase with DBArtisan 8.7.3 when I had an older version of the Sybase Open Client (12) on my PC. When I installed Sybase Open Client 12.5 - the error went away.