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IIRC, the basic problem with this is that they'd have to change size of
the "fieldname" field in the input and output specs. Right now they
provide 14 chars (the extra 4 are presumably for the (nn) suffix used in
arrays). They'd have to change the layout of I and O specs to
accomodate longer names, and I'm sure they're not eager to do that :)
At one time, I think George Farr said that they were considering adding
the longer names into externally described data structures (E DS with
EXTNAME) as a future enhancement, that way you could use the long names,
if you used the feature that lets you read directly into a data
structure. But I haven't heard anything recently about this -- and my
memory on what I heard in the past is a little fuzzy.
Of course, you could solve this problem YOURSELF, TODAY. You could
simply read the file using an SQL statement. SQL supports long field
names. Or, you could write a preprocessor that retrieves the ALIAS names
and uses them to build the code for a data structure. (Or perhaps, use
both...)
Aaron Bartell wrote:
Been doing a healthy dose of professional services the past couple weeks,
and today I think I would give my left nut just to have more than 10 chars
for column names. It doesn't help that I am trying to take 30 char long XML
element names and try to fit them coherently into 10 chars. I feel like I
am doing a workout! :-)
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