System date behavior wish (GRX)

[Chris Sellitto]

All,

I don't know (or remember) if this topic has been broached in the past, but here goes.  I was wondering how difficult it would be to have the @system date fields retain their values upon copying new records.  I know it would be just as easy carrying a date field on the record, but I feel this is an inefficient way of doing things, not to mention a waste of field space.  We archive our data here on a regular basis, and having this option would be great.  Maybe have a new flag on the copy command that would instruct filePro to retain its system dates (@cd, @ud, @bd).

Hopefully others out there feel the way I do.  I don't know how difficult it would be, but I think it would make a great feature.


Thank you
Christopher Sellitto
VP Computer Operations
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