genxml negative value bug?

[Cobbenr]

hi all,

There seems to be a bug in genxml of ingres 10.1.

When an integer field contains a negative value it is exported into xml as an unsigned value in its two's-complement representation. So -1 becomes a very large value. Importing this into the server that exported it, fails because the value is out of range.

I tried this on an old ingres 2006 server. There the -1 value is exported into xml as expected.

Is there a known workaround or fix for this problem?

[Cobbenr]

Had this tested on latest ingres-build for MSWindows. There genxml produces negative values correctly. The problem seems to be limited to specific builds of ingress 10.1. Has somebody managed to get genxml produce negative values on linux?