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Re: Will IBM ever expand system object names?

Ah, the magic "cloud" - once again we have a distributed computing model. Will it persist? Perhaps? Probably? But in my mind it does not mean forcing a change in OS. Certainly Linux and Windows systems running in the "cloud" are not making upheaval-type changes in their OS'.

Just a minor thought from this potential Luddite - NOT!

Cheers
Vern

On 5/30/2024 7:04 AM, Alan (cfuture) Cassidy wrote:
At some point, in deference to the more recent IT school grads, I think IBM will need to create a next-gen OS to replace IBM i, with the name flexibility discussed in this thread.

That said, just because something is a shiny new thing, and even may have some flexibility, doesn't mean you should jump into it. I'm talking about "the cloud" there.

-Alan


On 05/29/2024 11:24 PM EDT x y <xy6581@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think you mean “easy peasy”. And don’t forget Allow Data Shift = Y.
Done and done.

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 19:51 Art Tostaine, Jr. <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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