Re: Delphi/400

[Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>]

John, 
How will converting to 6 character IBM RPG II field names make converting from 
an Oracle database where the field names are larger any easier?  Don't you have 
to then change every field that exceeds 6 characters into 6 characters or less? 
:-(





jhall@hillmgt.com on 06/22/98 02:44:58 PM
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Buck Calabro wrote:
> 
> On Monday, June 22, 1998 12:22 PM, Rob Berendt [SMTP:rob@dekko.com] wrote:
> > Field names on 400 versus those of Oracle.
> > CREATE TABLE QTEMP/FILEY (BIGHONKINNAME FOR COLUMN LITTLENAME CHAR
> > (10) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT, EVENBIGGERHONKER FOR COLUMN SMALLNAME
> > CHAR (25) NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT)
> 
> Rob,
>   You're right on the money, but we're encountering a funny situation with
> our Delphi developers.  They're building tables on the 400 which get
> system field names like BIGHON0001 and EVENBI0001 because they don't
> bother with "for column"  This causes our native AS/400 RPG apps and
> end-user query tools to see the "funny" names instead of the longer,
> useful ones.  So, the moral of the story is that you have to provide the
> long name for SQL *and* the short name for RPG/Query.  Double work, sort
> of.
> 
> Buck Calabro
> Commsoft, Albany, NY
> mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net
> 

Exactly - or just fall back to 6 char uppercase RPG II names across the
board and everything works :-)

John Hall
Home Sales Company.
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