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I understand it was a misrepresentation of the way IBM did it. My point
was to point out why I don't like appending new fields and leaving the
deprecated ones there.
And why a calculated field? Why not just make a bigger size field? Doing
so would allow an index to be built on it. And who picks a 10,0 packed
field for any application? Especially something like a size? Why did IBM
choose this for these two new fields versus any other value?
Data Field Buffer Buffer
Field Type Length Length Position
PACKED10 PACKED 10 0 6 1
ZONED ZONED 10 0 10 7
INT BINARY 9 0 4 17
SMALLINT BINARY 4 0 2 21
BIGINT BINARY 18 0 8 23
Rob Berendt
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