Re: The case of outnumbered numerator

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My first thought is to do it the other way round.  Put the letter to the 
front, not to the rear.  A99999,B00000, B00001... etc.

On 6/17/2015 12:44 AM, Gad Miron wrote:
> Hello Pundits
>
> We have a six digits numerator that approaches 899999.
>
> Since it happens to be a CHAR  field I would like to start using the
> letters A-Z
> in lexical order when incrementing this field so that incrementing
> 899999 will result in 9AAAAA , 9AAAAB , ......., 9AAAAZ, 9AAAA0, 9AAAA1 etc.
> (This way the numerator will sort the EBCDIC natural way)
>
> Do you know an *elegant* way of doing it ?
> (EBCDIC table having "holes" of unprintable chars does not expedite matters)
>
> Thanks
> Gad