[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Ability To Define An Auto Increment Field

[danielb]

Common practice for a table with an ID is to define the table, define the field, define the sequence, and then manually assign the field with the NEXT-VALUE() from the sequence. It would be good to have a field defined as AUTO INCREMENT, where this mapping was handled by the database itself. Alternatively, allow for a temp-table field to be defined as such, so importing records from an XML file, or similar, does not require additional variables.

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