Hi I am currently using Python to open an oracle8i db and read its contents into a DB2 datadase. The date fields from the oracle DB are exported in this format dbidate('2000-Nov-23 00:00:00') this will not read back into the new db because of the dbidate() function surrounding it. does anybody know of a way to stop the DCOracle module from exporting date like this ? Thanks in Advance Peter Church