>>SYS(11) return a fixed lenght string C(7),
>>
>
>Are you sure?
>
>

>? LEN(SYS(11,'06/06/1998'))
>? LEN(SYS(11,{}))
>

>
>Thanks,
>Aleksey.

This wouldn't be such a big deal to us if SET ENGINEBEHAVIOR 70/80 actually switched the optimization behavior back to 7 or 8. In this case, however, it doesn't.