Brett Meyer commented on an issue
Hibernate ORM / Bug HHH-8511
"Can't convert fromnull" when inserting clob in Informix
!!!! This problem doesn’t exist in version 4.1.4 !!!!

When I’m trying to insert value in CLOB column, mapped as materialized_clob I’m getting exception:

 SQL Error: -79742, SQLState: IX000
Can't convert fromnull

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: Can't convert fromnull
    at com.informix.util.IfxErrMsg.getSQLMinorException(IfxErrMsg.java:576)
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