AW: Allowable characters in field names, was Re: Distributing UDFs

A-Z, 0-9, @, #, $ and _

I'd not use these special characters, because they are not international!!!
You can define a column/field with an @, while in my German environment a @
is not allowed. Instead I can define fields/columns with an §.
AFAIK in other environments $ is not allowed while the Pound (Currency) sign
can be used.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Mark S. Waterbury
Gesendet: Thursday, 28. April 2011 18:53
An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Betreff: Re: Allowable characters in field names, was Re: Distributing UDFs

A-Z, 0-9, @, #, $ and _

On 4/28/2011 12:47 PM, James Lampert wrote:
Alan Campin wrote:

You have to send the object and run the script to create the function.

And Rob wrote:

There are stored in QSYS2/SYSFUNCS.

Fascinating.

I was led to believe that field names (unless quoted) only accepted
uppercase letters, digits, and underscores. And yet I just learned
empirically that "#" is also allowed. Any other allowable characters I
don't know about?

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JHHL