AW: Field names in SQL-generated files

Vern,

But Generate SQL ignores this short name - that's not cool, as Rob pointed

out. Seems a bug to me.

Generate SQL ignores the short name only by default!
If you click on Options you'll see the option "System names for objects".
Select this options, generate your SQL script and voilà the short names are
included.

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Birgitta Hauser

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An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Betreff: Re: Field names in SQL-generated files

Bill

I believe it's in the "Run an SQL script" option. When you have selected a
system under Databases in the environment list on the left, open it to see
the schemas (libraries). Open a library to see all the SQL objects,
including tables. Right-click Tables and see the New... option - this opens
a CREATE TABLE wizard.

And I see that there is an option there to assign a system (short) name,
instead of the generated one. I was looking at V5R4 of Navigator for this
function. Not sure when it came in - maybe forever. But Generate SQL ignores
this short name - that's not cool, as Rob pointed out. Seems a bug to me.

Also interesting - since I've never looked at this before - the record
format name is the generated name - I created a table named THISISALONGNAME,
short name LONGNAME. Format was named THISI00001, which was the system name
when the table was created, then I have to assume a RENAME TABLE was run -
didn't do a monitor, which would tell us everything done.

There are similar wizards for all the SQL objects types.

For SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, DELETE, there's an SQL Assist in the Run an SQL
script task. Once you've selected a system under databases, there's a link
to this on the Databases tasks on the lower-right. SQL Assist is under the
Edit menu option. There's also a drop-down of some templates that get copied
into the statement space.

HTH
Vern

On 8/23/2012 7:15 AM, Erhardt, Bill wrote:

Where does one find the "Table Create Wizard" in Ops Nav?

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Subject: Re: Field names in SQL-generated files

Do you have Ops Nav installed. It has a table create wizard that will

generate the sql automatially and you can enter short and long names. I
always give short and long names. I could also send you a script with both
but use Ops Nav if you can.

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From: "James Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Field names in SQL-generated files
Date: Wed, Aug 22, 2012 6:33 pm


We've got an SQL jock with little or no AS/400 experience developing an

entirely SQL-generated database for us (and in fact, that script that was
giving us trouble recently was part of it -- I passed along the answers, and
he was able to get the script working; thanks!).

At any rate, we're getting (not unexpectedly) SQL field names coming up as

column headings, looking at the file in QuestView. and generated

AS/400 native field names appearing wherever the SQL field names exceed
10 characters.

Is there a way to specify both the AS/400-native and SQL-native field

names when creating the file? And what about specifying an AS/400-native
filename when the SQL-native filename exceeds 10 characters?

I know about "LABEL ON" for column headings; I've used it in my own SQL

scripts

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