I HAVE A SEQUENTIAL FILE CONTAINING ONE RECORD IN WHICH I HAVE
ONE FIELD AS CUSTOMER IDENTITY NUMBER FIELD WHICH IS A SIGNED
FIELD. HOW TO SEQUENTIALLY INCREMENT THIS FIELD USING OVERLAY
PARAMETER?.

Answer Posted / mdv

What about the rest of the fields?

Search for SEQNUM in SORT.
You can generate a sequnece as you want.
You can define the max limit the sequence can reach, where
the sequnece should start, no. of bytes the sequence should
use etc ...

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