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Or OP can ask his DB analysts to enhance their tools and retrieve Column
Headings (aka LABELs) instead of column names for their application to
display.
IBM's tools have done that for decades now (grin).

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: Mixed Case Fields and SQL

On Dec 21, 2007 2:08 PM, JK <johnking@xxxxxxx> wrote:

The DB analysts at our new parent company are dissing our legacy system
because of the short field and file names. In their world-view, anything



Column names are SQL identifiers. Here's a link to the naming rules:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/db2/rbafzmstch2i
den.htm

It looks like we are stuck with upper-case, digits and underscore.



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