Re: Which compilers respect DDS ALIAS Keyword for LF's ?

[boldt@xxxxxxxxxx]

David wrote:
>Dies anyone know of any compilers which respect the DDS ALIAS
>Keyword for LF's ?  I have tried accessing an aliased field from
>both RPG/400 and RPGIV however both fail to compile, with error
>7030 (field not defined).

COBOL uses the ALIAS name.  When ALIAS was added to DDS, RPG
still only supported 6 char field names, so it didn't make
much sense for RPG to support longer DDS field names.

Cheers!  Hans

Hans Boldt, ILE RPG Development, IBM Toronto Lab, boldt@ca.ibm.com


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