Re: Will IBM ever expand system object names?

Ha ha, Not just like that, Art. Of course there's more to it. I have
recently learned that Europe is investing in building the largest telescope
on the Atacama desert down in Chile. It should be operating like in 2028 or
so. Don't remember exactly but I think I read something like over 1.5
billion euros! (??) What is the payback for that? Why would countries
altogether invest in such a beast?

They say: "to better understand the origins of the universe". How can you
live better with that? True, nothing, huh?

What do you think of that? So, investing for something that in your
current life you think is not going to get your life to a better condition
is not worthy? I wonder that too! But what I see is that they want the
future to be better. How come? My future?

We are now engaged to give ideas, a task force to make our jobs more
promising, more productive and more wealth-prone.
Why not?

Please! Modernization!!! Isn't it what we want?


El mié, 29 may 2024 a las 20:50, Art Tostaine, Jr. (<atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>)
escribió:

Just put a 25 next to all the OS sources, hit F13, search for 10 and
replace. Easy right?

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 7:04 PM x y <xy6581@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I see no chance of the 10-character limit changing in this operating
system. I would be surprised if a new cloud-based, all-graphic OS
compatible with what we're currently using didn't adopt a more flexible
object naming approach.

Soapbox:
It's sad that we are forced to deal with holdovers from long, long ago.
One example: the limit on command prompts lives on today--it's from the
days of the System/38's 16x64 console. If more customers had

complained, I

suspect IBM would have made a change (which I'd guess is trivial) to fix
this one annoyance.

Every executable I deploy has a green-screen command interface; this

makes

manual and automated unit testing demonstrably easier (especially for
service programs). Every batch job executes a command and some

parameters

are conditionally prompted. Trying to fit a meaningful description in 30
characters is an exercise in frustration!



On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 6:19 AM Javier Sanchez <
javiersanchezbarquero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

With SQL objects this is already possible, and sometime in the future,
maybe we will be able to do everything using only SQL, which would be
fantastic.

What about in the meantime we could have expanded the current 10-char
system object name length to something longer?

This is one item on my wish list, and I could also consider including

the

underscore character as a valid starting one for such names.

JS
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