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OS/400 or IBM i provides all the tools needed to do this.   See the ADDLNK command.
Use ADDLNK to create a long symbolic name (in the IFS) that links to (points to) the actual OS/400 or IBM i object name.
Then it is only a matter of writing commands that know how to recognize and use these symbolic links.
One could even write your own equivalent of QCMD, say, QCOMMAND, that would also recognize long command names.


On Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 02:07:43 PM EDT, James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 5/29/24 10:42 AM, Brad Stone wrote:
I like it.  :)

It's rather like what WinDoze did to support long names. Having a
separate "long name" property is quite different from changing the
length of the "name" property (QSYS.LIB objects do, after all, get new
properties added from time to time), and it's probably the only way long
names could be made to work without breaking enormous amounts of software.

--
JHHL


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