Oracle 10g ODBC Driver Bug (10.1.0.3.1)

Using the ODBC driver version 10.1.0.3.1, there is a problem retrieving BLOB data in chunks using multiple calls to SQLGetData() when the datatype specified is SQL_CHAR.
Instead of returning (<BufferLength> - 1) characters (ANSI) along with a NULL, it returns exactly <BufferLength> characters (possibly with a NULL, I haven't double checked this) - pretty much the behavior you would expect if SQL_BINARY was specified. This has the affect of losing one character for each truncated chunk.
According to the ODBC spec, "If the length of character data (including the null-termination character) exceeds BufferLength, SQLGetData truncates the data to BufferLength less the length of a null-termination character. It then null-terminates the data. If the length of binary data exceeds the length of the data buffer, SQLGetData truncates it to BufferLength bytes."
The way I read this, as long as you specify the datatype as SQL_CHAR, the character data rules should be applied.
I tried to submit this as a TAR in Metalink, but it seems I don't have the TAR button. Is this the correct forum for this issue? Thanks.
Jon

AFAIK, Oracle doesn't officially monitor these forums and where/when they do it is a haphazard and volunteer basis (personal observations).
They do monitor the MetaLink forums so perhaps that was the cause of the confusion. At any rate the answer to use a forum to file a bug is wrong you do it through a support TAR and that can either be created from MetaLink (TARS button--missing for you) or via the phone.

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