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Trevor,

What do you mean RPG limits file names to 8 characters? I use 10 character file names all the time in RPG. Both native & embedded SQL.

Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst - Application Development, Service Delivery Platform

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Briggs, Trevor (TBriggs2)
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:38 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: IBM Object naming rules

The IBM Knowledge Center would be a good place to start:

Naming a User-Created Object
To distinguish a user-created object from an IBM-supplied object, you should not begin user-created object names with Q because the names of all IBM-supplied objects (except commands) begin with Q. Although you can use as many as 10 characters in CL object names, you might need to use fewer characters to be consistent with the naming rules of the particular high-level language that you are also using. Also, the high-level language might not allow underscores in the naming rules. For example, RPG limits file names to eight characters and does not allow underscores.

Trevor Briggs
Analyst/Programmer
Lincare, Inc.
(727) 431-1246
TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx

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From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Erick Garske
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 1:06 PM
To: rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: IBM Object naming rules

Could someone point out an online reference for object naming rules for the standard maximum ten character upper case alpha numeric object names for files? I understand that hyphens are illegal, but underscores are valid. What is the domain of valid characters?
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