How COBOL names are aliased

A COBOL name begins with a letter and is composed of one to 30 characters from the following set: letters A-Z, digits 0-9, and the hyphen or minus sign (-).

An EGL part name is aliased if that part name demonstrates one of the following characteristics:

In all cases, characters in the alias are all upper case.

For certain parts, such as programs, data tables, services, forms, form groups, or libraries, you can specify an alias by assigning a value to the alias property; and if that value is too long or has characters that are not valid in COBOL, an error occurs. If you did not specify a value for the property and if the value of the part name is too long, the part name is truncated to the maximum, which varies by part type:

EGL always aliases function names to En, where n is a one-to-five-digit number that is unique within the program.

EGL aliases variable names as follows:

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