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Conference ilbbak::ibi_focus

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

181.0. "RMS Filenames Limited to 8 Characters?" by AKOV12::BIBEAULT (Corp Financial Strategies) Fri Feb 17 1989 16:04

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


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181.1try thisNCPROG::KERNSFast - maybe, Good - maybe, Cheap - never!Wed Mar 08 1989 10:0712
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