SAP Note 754143: SC names <= 10 chars

[Former Member]

SAP Note 754143 says, "Use only 10 characters for the software component name and for the vendor."

Wow! And no explanation is given. I assume, first of all, the note refers to software components defined in the SLD. 10 characters seems to be a pretty severe restriction, and I have not seen this advise anywhere else (in fact the example in the SAP Press book <i>Java Programming with the SAP Web Application Server</i> by Karl Kessler et al uses the software component JBOOK_EMPLOYEE = 14 chars).

Does anyone have any comments on this or experience using SC names > 10 chars, with or without problems? Any ideas on why this recommended limit?

[sid-desh]

Hi Randy,

In my opinion they have given this warning because older version of windows operating system do not support names longer than 8/10 characters.

Software Components names form folders on the local PC.

I believe they must have given this restriction because of this reason.

Just a thought.

Regards

Sidharth

[Former Member]

You wrote

> Software Components names form folders on the local

> PC.

I take the SAP note to be referring to <i>Software</i> Components defined on the SLD, which don't create anything on the PC, not <i>Development</i> Components defined in the Dev Studio, which indeed create folders on the PC and would be subject to OS file name restrictions.

[Former Member]

The SCA that is generated during the Assembly stage contains the SC name plus a timestamp, which may result in a rather large filename, which might cause problems on some OSes.

We're using SC names with more than 10 characters on AIX and Windows 2000/XP without any problems though.

[Former Member]

You can ignore the warning. SAP self uses sc names with more characters.