On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:08:25 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >... >And I think Mr. Gilmore had too many asterisks. The pattern I recall was >to prepend "*." until a unique name resulted (IIRC, giving things like >*.*.*.jobname.other). I had a home-grown utility, run daily, that >scratched temporary data sets, and *. was one of the patterns it looked >for, in addition to the more common SYSnnnnn. > Nowadays, might a viable practice be to scratch anything that's neither catalogued nor allocated?
Has IBM published a warning that such data set names are reserved for IBM, and not to be used by application programmers, or does IBM rely on "common knowledge" of programmers to avoid them? Is there a similar part of the name space reserved for ISVs? I know that in UNIX there is a convention (not published as a standard?) that pathnames incorporating a registered domain name (rewritten big-endian) are reserved for the registrant. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
