Re: Base utility? -- MIDRANGE-L

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tony writes:

> I think this is exactly what I needed.  One other question..  Is there a
> reason we go from ABC...789, instead of 012...XYZ ?  The later seems to be
> more logical as with hex.

Legacy...  This was a sequence number (defined elsewhere as
YYYYMMDDHHMMSSXX), and I started out ending up processing about 500 records
per second, which was a little more than expected. I talked the designers into
allowing alpha for the XX part. Then the program got put on a faster
machine and started processing about 900 per second and getting up to KK,
KL, and KM for the second time.
second following a processor upgrade.

Peter H. Coffin
phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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