Phil, My father was a FE for Unisys and said new boss is like a broom , “new broom makes a clean sweep”, new boss re-arranges “their” way...
Scott On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:12 PM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > As others have suggested, many companies do still have SSNs stored as > packed decimal. So sure, a namespace expansion is possible, but it's a > bigger change than one might think, however it's done. I've even seen at > least one company who stored them as binary! I sure hope someone got a big > bonus for saving that byte... > > > > > > Peter Farley wrote: > > >There are also many non-human entities like corporations that use the > same SSN value space. > > > > >There are a LOT of those . . . and they spring up and fade away at a rate > far higher than human births and deaths. > > > > They use the same namespace--that is, if your SSN is 123-45-6789, an > estate or business could also have that number. Since they're uses for > different things, it's more that they happened (!) to choose the same > format than that they're "the same". (And actually they're theoretically > formatted differently: an EIN is xx-xxxxxxx vs. the SSN xxx-xx-xxxx, not > that most folks store them with the hyphens.) > > > > ...phsiii > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
