Re: Blobs - Was - Floating Point Question

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

John P Carr wrote:
> Rob
> 
> While you were going Gung Ho for SQL file creations,   How did you do that
> REFFLD thing again?   So you only had ONE definition of (say) invoice
> number on your box???   SQL does that real nice huh?
> 
> Tongue_In_Cheek(*out)

Laugh, but the SQL equivalent is the User Defined Fields. These UDF's
permit you to not only build that ONE invoice number, but also allows
you to specify that you can not do any arithmetic other than bump it by
1. So, nobody adding or multiplying an invoice number TYPE.

Objects for the data!

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

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