Re: IBM Object naming rules

Trevor was quoting the IBM page.

And RPG (as in RPG III) does have a 8-character limit.

RPGLE allows for 10.

Charles


On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Kurt Anderson <Kurt.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

Trevor,

What do you mean RPG limits file names to 8 characters? I use 10
character file names all the time in RPG. Both native & embedded SQL.

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Application Development, Service Delivery

Platform

-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2)
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:38 PM
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Subject: RE: IBM Object naming rules

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

-----Original Message-----
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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