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I understand the issue, I guess I was thinking that chaining to a numeric field would be faster than alpha but maybe not, maybe my windows thinking is creeping in to iSeries.... On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 11:11:24 -0600, David Gibbs wrote > Douglas W. Palme wrote: > > I have been working with some zipcode files and we would prefer to treat the > > field (zipcode) as a packed field, but I need to allow for leading > > zeroes...is that possible with the PF? > > Leading zeros are meaningless for a numeric field. The only way to get > leading zeros on a have them added (either programatically or > automatically) by the application that is outputting the data. > > If you change your field to alpha and you can have leading zeros (if > the user, or your program, puts them in). That will also make your > application more flexible so that it can handle areas with non- > numeric postal codes (UK, Canada, etc). > > david > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) > mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To > subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: > http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: > MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment > to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. If you bought it, it was hauled by a truck - somewhere, sometime.
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