Re: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

The QSYS library system is the only file system that has the 10 character
limit, and that's frankly all a business system needs.  Long directory/path
structures are needed for text-file-based operating systems that are
fconfigured with thousands of little files, as opposed to an OS with an
integrated database.

If the 10 character limit bothers you so much, create your tables with
SQL.  You can give them nice long SQL names as well as nice short
system names.  Best of both worlds (yet again).  I'm not sure if the
same holds true for Schemas.

That's right, folks, I said TABLES and SCHEMAS.  If our system appears
to be old, at least part of that perception is due to the fact that we
use old terminology to describe it.  I have kids fresh out of college
working for me (green-hairs -- to steal Joe's line), writing Java apps
running in WAS.  If I use their lingo, I have no problems.  And they
have no problems using the system.

And although I teach them iSeries Navigator, most of them use the
command line interface because it's faster.  Just like it was when

long as they get their work done.

Mike E.