Re: File field names

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>My personal point of view (not my company's one) is that if
>I use RPGVI, full ILE developement I don't really need to
>use prefix at PF level. Since modules should be short,
>simple and concerned in very specific target I could use
>prefix in the RPG specs. Easy and net.
>But habbits and reality (many programmers and few of them
>using ILE properly) did the choice.
>Marco Facchinetti



While the internal RPG Prefix function  great for the RPG Programmer,   End
Users will still have to qualify their names in any end user query tool.
This might be ok.   But my point is that when we are developing standards,
we should also include the needs of end users who are more and more
becoming the direct(as opposed to in-direct) consumers of the data base.

Outfiles of joined query results are much easier to read with the data base
fields themselves denoting their original source by way of table/field
naming conventions.

IMHO

John Carr

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