Re: How to alias a member with a dot in its name?

[John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Mark. That is the syntax I was looking for.

However, in the process of experimenting, I discovered some really odd
behavior. When the member name is 9 or 10 characters, whether it has a
dot in the name or not, if I *lowercase* the name (which, yes, I know,
will never work), a very unexpected (to me) error comes up: SQL0107,
name too long, max 10 characters.

If the name is 8 characters or less, then using lowercase and quotes
fails in the expected way, which is that the SQL is considered valid,
but the member is simply not found (SQL0204).

John Y.


On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:43 PM Mark Waterbury
<mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John,
>
> Try enclosing MY.MBR in double-quotes like this:
>
>   CREATE ALIAS MYALIAS FOR MYLIB.MYFILE("MY.MBR")
>
> Mark