LIBNAME and CASLIB statements failing with ERROR in LIBNAME stmt and user param is invalid errors

[thebugslayer]

OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

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76 libname seacoastlib odbc dsn="seacoast" user="myuser" pass="mypassword";

ERROR: seacoastlib is not a valid SAS name.

ERROR: Error in the LIBNAME statement.

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78 OPTIONS NONOTES NOSTIMER NOSOURCE NOSYNTAXCHECK;

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Running the statement below to connect to a SQL Server database through DSN and I get error "ERROR: seacoastlib is not a valid SAS name:

libname seacoastlib odbc dsn="seacoast" user="myuser" pass="mypassword";

I have another statement, almost the same, to a different DSN, all in the same ODBC.INI file; the only difference is that the other statement includes a schema.

libname etllib odbc dsn="etl" user="myuser" pass="mypassword" schema="myschema";

PS: this statement that executes resides in a file created a long time ago. Maybe some variable created that reside in the system somewhere. The one that fails was created today.

I have even tried 

caslib seacoastlib datasource="seacoast" user="myuser" pass="mypassword" 

What am I missing?

[ballardw · Accepted solution]

SAS Library names are limited to 8 characters;

seacoastlib is 11 characters

make it shorter

seacoast would be acceptable.

[thebugslayer]

Thank you so much!
SAS should take care not to use non-compliant names in online examples.

[ballardw]

Please post the link to the online example you reference that used a non-compliant name.