Have you ever thought about storing the date in EDI standards format since
we are discussing EDI on this list? I am including an individual on this
reply that did this on a main frame back in the early 1980's. It one get
program and one put program in CICS and another pair of get and put programs
for batch. The entire concept is the same as using the EDI standards. The
get programs put the data into the format the application programs were
looking for based on whatever version was on the file. The put program
after using or modifying the data put it away using the most current
version. This had cost saving benefits including space saving (smaller
files), being upgraded to most current standards version when being accessed
and only requiring a few programs to be modified when standards
modifications are made.
John D. Kaess
P.S. Ozzie: I hope you did not mind my letting others know of your
accomplishments.
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