Query of Queries always returns 0 records?

Question

I have code that worked just fine on ColdFusion 9 but once we did an update to ColdFusion 2016 the code stooped working. Here is an example of the code:

<cfset rec = structKeyExists(URL, "recType") ? recType : "">

<cfinvoke component="#application.pathIDEA#.APPS.components.getRecs" method="evalSelect" returnvariable="getEvalData">
    <cfinvokeargument name="whKey" value="#key#"/>
    <cfinvokeargument name="whType" value="#rec#"/>
</cfinvoke>

<cfdump var="#getEvalData.recordcount#">

<cfquery name="evalData" dbtype="query">
    SELECT *
    FROM getEvalData
    <cfif len(rec) AND rec NEQ 9>
        WHERE ea_type = '#rec#'
    </cfif>
</cfquery>

<cfdump var="#evalData.recordcount#">

As you can see above I have cfinvoke that calls a function in my .cfc. If I dump my return variable there is data with 20 records. Once I use query of queries to add the filter for ea_type field the query will return 0 records. I'm confused why that would return 0 since data exist for that type. Is there something in ColdFusion 2016 that works different or my code is breaking for some other reason. Again this worked in ColdFusion 9 and ColdFusion 10 but doesn't work in ColdFusion 2016. If anyone knows how this can be fixed please let me know.