After so many years in this business I should have tried this instead of spending over two hours trying to find less straight forward solution/explanations. I had been doing a lot of ALTER statements in Aqua Data Studio, changing the VIEW, etc., etc. In addition I had also been re-genning all the Abator domains, daos, and xml file in an instance of Eclipse and copying them into the RAD 7 instance.
I had been doing all that and then "republishing" from RAD7 to the WAS 6.1 server while the server was still up and running. It didn't occur to me to simply shut down Rational Application Developer Studio 7 and it's affiliated instance of Websphere Appliction Server 6.1. Shutting RAD7 and WAS 6.1 down and then starting them up again solved the truncation problem. It was truncating anything greater than 50 characters. So sorry if I wasted anyone's time with my initial "possible bug" post. Abator is a fabulous product. It was me, not Abator. > My abator problem is that the last 5 characters of a field are being > chopped ... etc. etc.