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Re: dds, sql , ODBC alias...

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Dow <pcdow@yahoo.com>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: dds, sql , ODBC alias...


>Hi Tim,
>
>The DDS ALIAS keyword was originally for COBOL programs, which is why it's
>limited to 30 characters.  Also, the first character must be A-Z,
subsequent
>letters must be A-Z, 0-9 or underscore.


in the hair splitting department.... unless I have forgotten something... it
was PL/I that drove  the alias, not COBOL. In COBOL you had to specify COPY
DD instead of COPY DDS.  PL/I automatically pulled the alias names in.

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