AW: IBM Object naming rules -- RPG400-L

I'd suggest neither using special characters, because they are not
international nor embedding system names into quotes for making them case
sensitive or including (other) special characters.
According to the documentation that was copied before the special values
#,@,$ and _ are allowed. But when working with the German operating system a
§-sign must be used, while@ is not allowed.

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Von: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Rory
Hewitt
Gesendet: Tuesday, 10.6 2014 20:09
An: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Betreff: Re: IBM Object naming rules

I seem to remember that it's possible to create an object with lower-case
characters, e.g. "a.b.c" (including the double-quotes), e.g.:

CRTPF FILE(QTEMP/"a.b.c") RCDLEN(1)

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry, here's an online link as requested:

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iadthelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom
.ibm.etools.iseries.langref2.doc%2Frbam6names.htm

Stu

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Stuart Rowe <rowestu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From the CL manual:

*NAME (basic name in unquoted form)

Every basic name can begin with the characters A-Z, $, #, or @ and
can be followed by up to nine characters. The remaining characters
can include

the

same characters as the first but can also include numbers 0-9,

underscores

(_), and periods (.). Lowercase letters are changed to uppercase
letters

by

the system. Basic names used in IBM-supplied commands can be no
longer

than

10 characters. However, in your own commands, you can define
parameters

of

type *NAME (specified on the TYPE parameter of the PARM or ELEM

statements)

with up to 256 characters.

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2) <
TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The IBM Knowledge Center would be a good place to start:

Naming a User-Created Object
To distinguish a user-created object from an IBM-supplied object,
you should not begin user-created object names with Q because the
names of all IBM-supplied objects (except commands) begin with Q.
Although you can use as many as 10 characters in CL object names,
you might need to use fewer characters to be consistent with the
naming rules of the particular high-level language that you are
also using. Also, the high-level language might not allow
underscores in the naming rules. For example, RPG limits file names
to eight characters and does not allow underscores.

Trevor Briggs
Analyst/Programmer
Lincare, Inc.
(727) 431-1246
TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of

Erick

Garske
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:06 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: IBM Object naming rules

Could someone point out an online reference for object naming rules
for the standard maximum ten character upper case alpha numeric
object names for files? I understand that hyphens are illegal, but
underscores are valid. What is the domain of valid characters?
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