Hi. I'm reading that SAS Libnames cannot be any longer than 8 characters. This is a horrible limitation for me as I need to assign multiple libnames (ten or more) of which 4 characters are an ID assigned specifically to me (because we are in a shared server environment). So this only leaves me only 4 chars to make my library names unique. I could use some numbering system like: myid_01, myid_02, myid_03, etc..., but this isn't intuitive and seems really ridiculous to me. When browsing my libraries that appear in the data explorer GUI window I really need to be able to clearly know which library belongs to which sas programming project I'm working on.
Is there anything I can do about this? Can I assign a label to a library name so that when it's displayed in the GUI data explorer I can see a more meaningful name that isn't restricted to just 8 characters? Any other suggestions?
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