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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 +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com". | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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