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

I would think this quite a bit more useful than some of the BIF's I've seen
requested and something we can't do ourselves.  Speaking of such things, is
there any possibility at all that we could ever see OS400 object names
longer than 10 chars.?  I know it's embedded everywhere, but this is one of
the things that mark us as ancient and completely out-of-touch compared to
other systems and languages.

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From: <boldt@ca.ibm.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 8:38 AM
Subject: Re: Which compilers respect DDS ALIAS Keyword for LF's ?


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