[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Buffers should inherit the SERIALIZE-NAME attribute

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I think it makes sense for most attributes to not get inherited by a buffer. But in the case of SERIALIZE-NAME it really should inherit the value. Basically if you want to use a TEMP-TABLE for IO with XML or JSON, than you have to be extremely careful with buffers or you export different data than the TEMP-TABLE would. This basically means that as a dev, the safest way to do this is to not use SERIALIZE-NAME at all and change the TEMP-TABLE name to the desired field name. This breaks coding standards but prevents bugs.

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