Per Steve Hawkins 7/17/2013:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-2365 for 8.5 removed the ResolverVisitor.setFindShortName method so that we don't have to rely on static/ThreadLocal logic. Instead this value can be set via the QueryMetadataInterface method findShortName. A simple usage pattern is:

QueryMetadataInterface metadata = new BasicQueryMetadataWrapper(metadata){
public boolean useOutputName()

;
};
QueryResolver.resolveCommand(command, metadata);

Or this could possibly integrated into your workspace metadata in an appropriate manner (considering thread-safe usage, etc.).