BTW with the new Free-Format F-Specs you even can handle longer file names
(but the system name needs to be specified in composition with the keyword
EXTDESC).
DCL-F MyLongSQLTableName ExtDesc('SHORTNAME')
ExtFile(*EXTDESC) Alias
Usage(*OUTPUT: *DELETE)
Keyed;
Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards
Birgitta Hauser
"Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." (Les
Brown)
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (Derek Bok)
"What is worse than training your staff and losing them? Not training them
and keeping them!"
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Von: RPG400-L [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Briggs,
Trevor (TBriggs2)
Gesendet: Wednesday, 11.6 2014 17:07
An: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Betreff: 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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