Originally Posted by dbzTHEdinosaur

no the bogus requirement is to call a 5 char alpha-numeric field a sequence number.
as apposed to the airline requirements, the sequence matters for the TS (Topic starter)
as well as I doubt that the airline requirements call for a 5 char number.

with 5 char you are limited to 6,000,000+ (minus 00001 thru 99999) permutations,
and 6 million is not a very big number now-a-days.

The TS's application is being short-sighted.
limiting to 5 char sounds like vsam technology and not db2.