Re: QMQRY: Does this query tool support long field names (DDS Alias names) on iseries? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: QMQRY: Does this query tool support long field names (DDS Alias names) on iseries?
From: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:26:20 -0500
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On 11/13/2015 3:11 PM, Stone, Joel wrote:

If yes, how?

On my Power 8 running IBM i 7.2, QMQRY does seem to support the use of
DDS ALIAS. Here is some DDS I just made:

A R ALIASR
A FIELD 10A ALIAS(LONGERFIELDNAME)

Did a regular CRTPF, then I used a QMQRY utility I have to do this:

buck/rs 'insert into buck.alias values(''val1'')'
buck/rs 'select longerfieldname from buck.alias'

I have to admit that I don't use the ALIAS DDS keyword at all; I define
new tables with SQL DDL, so I can have long table names as well as long
column names.

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