Re: Do column label and column text have any tie back to the greenscreen?

Justin,

The column labels and text are used by tools like SDA (Screen Design Aid -
a 5250 (green screen) programmin tool), WRKQRY, QM (Query Manager), etc in
order to add a descriptive name to a column.If you have the proper label
you could easily have, say, <Customer Name> versus CUSTOMER_NAME (the
column name)

HTH,
Luis


Luis Rodriguez

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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

So I get the whole sys_column_name versus column_name thing as
compatibility with things that were built for 10 character columns.
However, the shop I'm in is quite adament about using LABEL FOR to add
column labels and column text to them. Is this just meta data that could

be

referenced through the system catalog views, or does RPG intrinsically

use

this somehow when labeling fields on screens bound to physical files.

Justin
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