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

Hans wrote:
> 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.

Nelson wrote:
>So why not now?

Well, although you can certainly use long names in
calcs and definition specs, input and output specs
still limit you to ten char names.  Perhaps that's
not important if you never override your input and
output fields, but it would still require a bit of
work for us to implement, even if we didn't extend
I and O specs to allow long names.

Anyways, I'll add it to our list of suggestions.

Cheers!  Hans



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


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