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DDWKEY0010

FLOATING-POINT FIELD IN KEY

Reason:

During the verification of a DATABASE structure, a KEY substructure was detected that is related to a FIELD entity-occurrence with a TYPE attribute-value of E, L, or S. Use of a floating-point FIELD entity-occurrence in a key can cause the data records to be sorted and retrieved according to a bit pattern that is different than the alphanumeric bit pattern.

Action:

This is a warning message only. No action is required if this manner of sorting or retrieval is acceptable.