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The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a medium priority requirement that should be addressed. As the use of qualified data structures is expanded, the size of the variable names needs to increase.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community, and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
IBM will use this request as input to planning but no commitment is made or implied. This request will be updated in the future if IBM implements it.
IBM has received the requirement and is evaluating it. IBM will provide a response after evaluation is complete.
The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a HIGH priority requirement that is important to address.
To be able to build modern RPG applications we long descriptive attribute names to increase the number of characters would help to improve the image of RPG.
Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Db2 for i
Operating system - IBM i
Source - Customer Advisory Council
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Languages - RPG
Operating system - IBM i
Source - Customer Advisory Council
It is the limit of 64-characters that is the problem. This when the host variables used in the SQL statement is based on a qualified DS with a long a name with subfields with long names. The limit of 64 characters should be extended to for example 128 characters.
Here is an example:
EXEC SQL
SELECT MachineLine_ID, DimDiesIndicator, UsedFrom, UsedUntil, SeriesID, SeriesName,
Update_TS, Update_User
INTO :Create_MachineLineDimensionAndDiesSeries_Data
FROM FINAL TABLE(
INSERT INTO NLPMDDV2
VALUES(
:v1_Create_MachineLineDimensionAndDiesSeries_Data.MachineLine_ID,
:v1_Create_MachineLineDimensionAndDiesSeries_Data.DimensionDiesIndicator, <= Too long...
:v1_Create_MachineLineDimensionAndDiesSeries_Data.UsedFrom,
:v1_Create_MachineLineDimensionAndDiesSeries_Data.UsedUntil,
:v1_Create_MachineLineDimensionAndDiesSeries_Data.SeriesID,
:v1_Create_MachineLineDimensionAndDiesSeries_Data.SeriesName,
DEFAULT,
DEFAULT ));
Please provide an example of what you are trying to do.
- Have you coded the ALIAS keyword for your File or DS definitions? You do need to code ALIAS to use the long names.
- Or do you want to use names that are longer than the 64-character limit for the SQL precompiler?
Specify the Alias keyword on the DS... Dcl-DS MyDS ExtName("MYFILE") Qualified Alias;
Or are you referring to another issue, please provide an example.