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Mark, > My real question is why was a restriction put there in the first >place? Level breaks handle numerics just fine. Some would argue this is not the case. Level breaks on numeric fields consider only the absolute value and ignore the sign. Many people forget this detail, since level breaks are often used on things like a customer number or order number, and these tend to not used negative numbers anyway. > Or it can just use a buffer character comparison (I would imagine that >that would be the most efficient) and ignore field type! That breaks existing rules (see above) so couldn't be used for packed and zoned fields. Or did you just mean for binary fields? >I would like to venture a guess that there are *far* more closet (or >open) "cyclers" than the crowd or IBM would care to admit! :-) Let's not start that again... Doug
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