Subj : Re: Problem at your system
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : deon
Date : Wed Jan 25 2023 11:29 am

  Re: Re: Problem at your system
  By: Wilfred van Velzen to deon on Tue Jan 24 2023 04:15 pm

Howdy,

 >  de> I'm not sure it would be against a standard to put nulls in a field
 >  de> that a standard would describe "dont use in this case" (and in this
 >  de> particular scenario, I think we are talking about if an INTL kludge
 >  de> exists).
 >
 > Non of the FTSC documents say that.

Actually, I think they do. Just found a copy of FTS-0001.016 (1995) and there are several references to fields being null if not used:

serialNo   (* binary serial number (otherwise null)*)
password   (* session password  (otherwise null)   *)
origZone   (* zone of pkt sender (otherwise null)  *)
destZone   (* zone of pkt receiver (otherwise null)*)

So the concept of using null if a field is not used has been set.


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