We are faced with this same situation and the thought behind this truly baffles me. Why take a flexible, dynamic database system and force it to be fixed length. This is what you are doing using dimensioned arrays and MATREADs. The most common justification I have heard is performance and this simply doe not hold water. I started in Pick in R83 and have never used a dimensioned array to hold record structure and I have not seen performance issues. This to the extent that we ran an MRP run on a 286 Wyse PC that choked the mainframe at this company.
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