| Title: | FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS | 
| Moderator: | ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE | 
| Created: | Thu Feb 19 1987 | 
| Last Modified: | Mon May 05 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 615 | 
| Total number of notes: | 1779 | 
Is there anyway around this problem? Will it vanish with some future FOCUS 
release?
The following is extracted from an A1 mail message:
          Here are my suggestions for new filenames.........others can
     be used, but try to limit the filename to a max of 8 characters.
    
     As I said, the long names create problems with the IBI FOCUS
     software in the AIC.  We have to change these names to a shorter
     name before we can use them.
     Current Name                    Proposed Name
     ----------------------------    -------------
     CCOA_XREF.IDX                   CCOAXREF.IDX
     BUSINESS_UNITS.IDX              BSNSUNTS.IDX
     CONSOLIDATION_ACCOUNTS.IDX      CNSLACCT.IDX
     FIN_TRANS_VALIDATION.IDX        FNTRNSVL.IDX
     GENERAL_LEDGERS.IDX             GNRLDGRS.IDX
     ICV_CONSOLIDATION_POINTS.IDX    CNSLPNTS.IDX
     ICV_REPORT_SECTIONS.IDX         RPTSCTNS.IDX
     POSTING_ACCOUNTS.IDX            PSTGACCT.IDX
     REF_ELEMENTS.IDX                REF_ELEM.IDX
     REF_VIEWS.IDX                   REF_VIEW.IDX
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 181.1 | try this | NCPROG::KERNS | Fast - maybe, Good - maybe, Cheap - never! | Wed Mar 08 1989 10:07 | 12 | 
| Do a SET FILE/ENTER=8_char_name old_file_name Then you can have both names and use the 8 char name in FOCUS and use the larger names in other layered products. IBI said that this will be fixed in 5.7 (the next release) of FOCUS. Steve | |||||