Alternate Collating sequence

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I tried one of the articles on the alternate collating sequence by George A Bennett. He had created a sequence starting from 00-FF Where he changed the sequence of F0-FF to get a different sequencefor the numbers 0-9. It is funny though that putting the sequence asF8F9F0F1F2F3F4F5F6F7FAFBFCFDFEFF brings the sequence table when doing a DSPTBL a sequence of 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0,1 for the numbers. Why is this pattern a 10 - the sequence where you want to begin. I was expecting a one to one mapping. I thought the above example would start with 8. If you wanted a sequence starting with 3,4,5,....2 it would be (10-3) so the table would end in F7F8..........FF. The next one is in the example the table was created with a table type of *SRTSEQ what really is the difference between creating it using the *CRT or the *SRTSEQ parameter. I used this method in a lot of Y2K stuff involving files having 6 digit date fields instead ofconverting them to 7. Thanks for replying.

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Please excuse my multiple Post. I do not know how it got posted multiple times. When I hit Done it came out with empty data and i hit done again.

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On Friday, May 21, 1999, 08:45 AM, Prakash Paul wrote: Please excuse my multiple Post. I do not know how it got posted multiple times. When I hit Done it came out with empty data and i hit done again. When viewing your own message, you should see an active link/option above and to the right, which enables deleting the extra copies. FWiW when you receive the message about 'empty', you can list the topics, and most likely see that indeed your post is there. Regards, Chuck Comments provided "as is" with no warranties of any kind whatsoever.