The comment field is useful not just for the optical designer, but also useful from a product management perspective. I would like to be able to use the comment field to keep track of our internal component part numbering. It is easy to extract this information afterwards using either ZOS-API or just parsing the ZMX file.

However, certain object types use the comment field as a data input (Boolean types, CAD types). I understand these cannot be modified for backwards compatibility. Can new Boolean 2 and CAD 2 types be added that move the boolean operation or CAD file path into a parameter?

There are work arounds, but having a standard and obvious way to doing things (placing comments in the comment field) is significantly more maintainable.