On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:43:03 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: >The Social Security Administration could easily give 20 years of advance >warning before expanding their number space if they wish. They've got >several options before that far distant future, such as: > >1. Allowing capital letters except those that can be confused with numeric >digits.
If they are going to give warning so that computer systems can be changed, this is not an interim option. Many years ago, I worked as an application programmer on systems where SSN was stored in packed decimal. I'm sure that others did the same, or stored them in a fullword. These would have to be changed if letters are allowed. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
