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  3. February 2008

Re: 10 Char object names was...

With the existing support in the IFS today, you can create a symbolic link to create an "alias" name for these objects:
addlnk obj('qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myprogram1.pgm') newlnk('/home/mydir/myVeryLongDescriptiveProgramName')

I am just not sure how you can use it?

> Keith Carpenter wrote:
rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'd imagine that would drive the tool vendors nuts. If you think they went bonkers when IBM allowed you to use more than 25 libraries in a library list, just think how ballistic they'll go on that change.

Only if it breaks existing code.

If instead of changing the QSYS.LIB file system, IBM were to add a new file system that aliased long names to the short ones, it should remain compatible. If you recall, Windows 95 had both short and long names.


Keith





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