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Re: Any legitimate reason for 'UF A E' file defn when output only?

On 6/6/17, 5:18 PM, John Yeung wrote:
I could have sworn I've seen field-not-defined errors that somehow
involved output-only fields. Maybe with the field on the
right-hand-side of an EVAL or something? But I don't have an actual
example in front of me and my memory could be wrong.

Hmm. Maybe. I suddenly find myself thinking of a "data warehouse" joke I came up with, that got published in one of the midrange trade journals:

"Data Roach Motel: Data goes in, but it doesn't come out."
(Probably implmemented using write-only memory.)

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JHHL

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