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At 02:20 PM 12/12/1997 -0500, Buck Calabro wrote:
>>There're probably historical reasons for using separate libraries. E.g., I
>>think key field handling was not so easy in S/34 or S/36, hence the
>>separate files methodology?
>
>Key handling wasn't the issue for us on our old S/3; it was the pace of
>acquisitions.  When you have an organisation that has a key like this:
>SLSM (2,0)
>CUST(5,0)
>and you buy another company, you'll be faced with this choice:
>a) change umpteen dozen files to have a new key structure, or
>b) make a new library to segregate one business from another.
>
>Mostly, we picked (b) because it goes quickly, and with few 
>hidden gotcha's.

In our case, we control the key, since we're not necessarily dealing with
acquisitions so much as selling our services to, say mortgage lenders. So
we end up with exactly the same file structure in multiple libraries. It's
a little like the library is another key field.

In the case you describe, it seems you're keeping the structure of files
that the new company already has. In our case, as I say, we are just adding
a new 'code'.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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