RE: DDS vs DDL

Birgitta,

Thank you for sharing that response from Rochester. I agree with that when
you are designing a system from scratch. However, in most shops where I
have worked, there is a mixture of new and old code, and having the use of
referenced fields helps alot in reducing the hardcoding of field sizes
differently depending on who wrote the application.

I did not think I could define a PF with a 12 position timestamp, but
thought I'd ask anyway.

In reference to packed versus zoned, the IBM DDS Manual at V7R2 on page 23
says this: "Note: The system performs arithmetic operations more
efficiently for a packed decimal than for a zoned decimal data type."

That is the only reason I asked.

Thank you again.

Doug



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