What gets me is, on the screen, the flag is entered as a Y/N and defaults to N, WHICH WE NEVER CHANGE, BTW, everybody has an "N" in that field. We're transfering data to corporate, and they have to complicate the concept. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Stigers [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 4:30 PM To: 'Gates, Scott'; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: OT: Barcode Abuse Goodness. Well, this may be in poor taste, and can be interpreted differently according to one's beliefs, but didn't Jesus say to "let your yes be yes, and your no be no"? There you have it, and on the highest authority... But seriously. I am between class meetings and final exam for a Boston University grad course in database management, and for no significant reason in particular, we used Oracle, perhaps because it is available free for such uses, for popular platforms. There sure is something to be said for enforced standards! Now, while neither KSAM nor Image have intrinsic standards for Booleans, can you make a case for shop standards? Fortunately, in COBOL, you can have an 88 identifier with values of Y, T, and 1 for flagname-TRUE, etc. Gates, Scott wrote: > Here on the home front, there's a committee meeting to determine > acceptable values of a single character "Yes/No" flag. Greg Stigers, MCSA this space for rent * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *