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But the short names can be defined in DDL, allowing the "short" field
names to be six characters or less.
-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H. H.
Lampert
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 11:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: More fun with native RLA on an SQL view

Luis Rodriguez wrote:
Regarding long names in SQL, they always have a "short name" version
for use
in laguages like CL and/or RPG. If you run a DSPFFD against the SQL
table,
you should see the short version. For example, VERYLONGNAME could
translate
to VERYL00001, VERYLONGNAME2 as VERYL00002 and so on.

Right, but while this would get us in with ILE RPG, I don't know that it

would necessarily do so for OPM RPG, which seems to have problems with
even 10-character field names.

--
JHHL

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