Re: COMMON -Thoughts

["Steven Easton Mail" <seaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

I use Alpha sequence numbers for change management.  I have a program that
assign's them.  The compare source does a lot better job if it has a unique
key, so does my Case Tools.

Steven Easton
seaston@ionet.net

> 
> For all those that liked the way that sequence numbers were handled in
RPG3
> (RPG/400) and dislike how they were implemented in RPG4, I don't think
that
> this will be changed. As I was told, no other compiler supports
> alphanumeric sequence numbers so this needs to be taken out of RPG.
Sounds
> more like an ideological issue than a logistical one. From a conversation
I
> overheard, I don't think there is any intention to even consider this.
> 
> Joe Teff

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