Re: 10 Char object names was...

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

With the existing support in the IFS today, you can create a symbolic 
link to create an "alias" name for these objects:
  
   addlnk obj('qsys.lib/mylib.lib/myprogram1.pgm') 
newlnk('/home/mydir/myVeryLongDescriptiveProgramName')

I am just not sure how you can use it?

> Keith Carpenter wrote:
> rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > I'd imagine that would drive the tool vendors nuts.  If you think they 
> > went bonkers when IBM allowed you to use more than 25 libraries in a 
> > library list, just think how ballistic they'll go on that change.
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> Only if it breaks existing code.
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> If instead of changing the QSYS.LIB file system, IBM were to add a new 
> file system that aliased long names to the short ones, it should remain 
> compatible.  If you recall, Windows 95 had both short and long names.
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