ODBC Character String Too Long

We have been live on the 9.05.700A service pack for a week now and have most of our issues fixed I have one that is aluding me though we are having isues with invoicing when the part description is longer than so many characters I remember a few times in the past going into the data dictionary and modifying the PartDesc field from the default to 31995 which is the epicor set maximum so the issue would go away. When I tried this last night I found the dictionary would not accept the a -rx modification in the properties of the dictionary so I tried to go into the dictionary and it gave me a error stating "Only SQL Clients allowed on this broker" We are on a 32 bit Progress system any ideas would be greatly appreciated.