Determining your application needs

Determine your application needs and goals before changing INTEGER data types to INT64 data types in applications. Not all INTEGER data types will necessarily require the additional bit size, nor will wholesale changes in data types necessarily work efficiently with other interfaces to ABL. For more information about determining when to use INT64 versus INTEGER, refer to the Release 10 ABL Data Types Web paper available at the Web paper category of the PSDN Web site located at http://communities.progress.com/pcom/community/psdn.