>>ALTER TABLE works fine but truncates long names to standard-10 as a side-effect, for some reason...related to not being in DBC, I guess?
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>Right. You can only have long names for objects contained in a DBC.

Well, sort of...What I mean is that a cursor can of course have long names too, since it is only a temporary memory creation. But when you create a cursor with long names, then do ALTER TABLE, all long memory names get truncated...it's kind of an odd situation, I guess we're fortunate that ALTER TABLE even works at all on cursors, that it works surprised me the first time I tried it...