Externally Described DS with SQL Column Names

Hi all,

I have this craving to use the longer SQL column names in my externally
described datastructures. It will make coding much more efficient when the
field names are self describing. Plus I use the intellisense feature in
WDSc (ctrl+space with the outline built) and this would really be handy in
combination with that tool. Then again, if the intellisense feature would
include the description of the fields this would not bug me as much. Oh,
and while I'm on it... why should we have to create the outline. That thing
takes days to build when I have a few eds's in my program! Couldn't it run
as a background process always updating as you make changes to your
program?

So, does anyone know any tricks I can perform on my D spec to get the SQL
names rather than the 10 position ones?

Below is an example of what I am talking about:

d extFile e ds extname(myFile) qualified inz

/free
exec sql
SELECT f.myLongSQLFieldName
INTO :extFile.MYLSQLFNAM <--- this is ugly
FROM myFile as f;
/end-free

I would much rather be able to:

d extFile e ds extname(myFile) qualified inz

/free
exec sql
SELECT f.myLongSQLFieldName
INTO :extFile.myLongSQLFieldName
FROM myFile as f;
/end-free


Thanks in advance for any insight,
Robert Newton
EDPS
Electronic Data Processing Services
Software Engineer
rnewton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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