Did you change any UDT.OPTIONs? I seem to recall that there was one we
had to set to get the proper handling of numbers like 001 - although we
weren't working with an index at the time.

Sorry, I don't recall which option it was....

Hth
Colin Alfke

-----Original Message-----
From: Karjala Koponen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 7:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [U2] UniData index sort oddness


I recently added an additional alternate index to one of my files.

Procedure:

DELETE.INDEX JOB ALL
CREATE.INDEX JOB CONO <fourteen other fields> DESC
at the prompt for length I entered 50.
BUILD.INDEX ALL

I changed the length from 8 to 50.  8 was already too short for some of
the existing indices and DESC, the newly added alternate index, can be
rather long.

The sort order of
SELECT JOB WITH CONO = "001"
changed from an ascending ID sort before the re-indexing to a descending
ID sort after.

I did the same things on UniData 5.2 on AIX and UniData 6.0.9 on Solaris
2.8 with the same results.

The dictionary item CONO was unchanged during this process. 

I don't believe we have any process that counts on the sort order but
still, any ideas what's happening?

Karjala
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