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HLLs Other Than RPG III

If your application system is developed in a language other than RPG III, such as COBOL, C or PL/1, and there is no requirement to support RPG III programs, use a systematic naming convention that provides more meaningful names. This mainly amounts to being able to use three-character mnemonics as shown in the following example:

• Database format and field names may be up to ten characters long.
• Field names may be qualified by the format of the file from which they come. This means there is no need to include a format identifier as part of the field name.

The explanations of subcodes are the same as for the RPG III systematic convention given earlier.

Note: It is still useful to indicate the file type (database, display, printer) on the format. A common variation is to place the object type in either second position or last.