The maximum number of logins and the maximum number of users per-database was increased. You may notice the following new behaviors as a result of these changes:
Negative values may be used for user IDs (uid).
The server user ID (suid) associated with a group or a role in sysusers is no longer equal to the negation of their user ID (uid). In Adaptive Server 12.0, every suid associated with a group or a role in sysusers is set to -2 (INVALID_SUID).