Following up on the ANTs Data Server issues, their Tech Support guys promptly sent me a email saying that the Bugs have been logged and that they are working on it:

1. Bug number [1415]: JDBC getParameterTypeName() returns unknown for Date Datatype
2. Bug number [1416]: JDBC getParameterClassName() method returns hard-coded string as "java.sql.ParameterMetaData"
3. Bug number [401]: In ANTs, BIGINT is not of the standard size as compared to other Databases