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FYI... BMI is canvassing users for reactions to a fix. The planned fix is to
divide by 100 and eliminate the decimal remainder. This may occur sometime
next week. Since TS4 apparently ignored the decimal portion anyway (and I
didn't find a way to alter quote field formats) I told them that it works
for me. Cheers!
P.S. I could have held my breadth! Seems like BMI is moving nicely to
resolve the issue.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Everson <pae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, May 29, 1998 10:02 AM
Subject: BMI Equity PE field format change
>No big deal here. As near as I can tell the PE isn't saved inside of TS4
>anyway - although Omega techsupp hasn't confirmed this, I was told to
delete
>security.dat. But if you use the PE field on quote windows (I find it
>interesting to sort a large quote window by PE) you may have noticed the
>numbers got wacky a few weeks back. If you were observant (I wasn't) you
may
>have noticed they became approximately 100 times reasonable values (I
>didn't). I did email BMI, and after a few standard techsupp-type iterations
>(first rule of techsupp: blame the other vendor) BMI found that Telesphere
>had changed the format. All I've seen in TS has been a usually 2 digit
>occasionally 3 digit integer. BMI tells me it used to be a decimal, and is
>now being reported in hundredths. So if you mentally divide by 100, the
>numbers are much more reasonable. I have suggested that BMI have Telesphere
>change the format back and coordinate future changes with users and related
>software vendors ... but I'm not holding my breath.
>
>Cheers!
>
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