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I remember DB2 had some weird limits. I think it was something like database names couldn't be more than 8 bytes, which was something to do with some filesystem
by Latty 9y ago
I remember DB2 had some weird limits. I think it was something like database names couldn't be more than 8 bytes, which was something to do with some filesystem on z/OS or something that couldn't have directories with names longer than that (probably not quite right, but it was something like that).
- mitchty 9y agoz/os, oh how I remember interfacing with thee, and hating every minute of it. From what I remember you're spot on, every "file" or "record name"/whatever (mainframes are not unix) was restricted to 8 characters and upper case, also EBCIDIC just because IBM. So many silly legacy things around those mainframes. That said, they literally never had an outage on it the entire time I was there so +1 for reliability and availability. They even replaced the whole mainframe piece by piece.