RE: IBM Object naming rules

As Charles has said, that was an old RPG restriction. The takeaway from
this is:

1) The file naming restrictions are dependent upon what you are going to
do with the file.
2) Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

Trevor Briggs
Analyst/Programmer
Lincare, Inc.
(727) 431-1246
TBriggs2@xxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt
Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2014 9:34 AM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: RE: IBM Object naming rules

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

-----Original Message-----
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

-----Original Message-----
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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