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DDWKEY0013

SIGNED NUMERIC FIELD IN KEY

Reason:

During the verification of a DATABASE structure, a KEY substructure was detected that contains a FIELD entity-occurrence with a TYPE attribute-value of N or D and a SIGN attribute-value of Y. Use of a signed numeric FIELD entity-occurrence in a key can cause the data records to be sorted and retrieved in a different sequence than expected.

Action:

This is a warning message only. No action is required if this manner of sorting and retrieval is acceptable. To obtain a logical sorting sequence, change the KEY entity-occurrence DATA-SENSITIVE attribute-value to Y.