Please note that with z/OS 2.2 the length of system symbols names has increased from 8 to 16, and may include the underscore character.
Ant. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2016 12:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Manipulating system symbols On 2016-02-03 19:27, Skip Robinson wrote: > This is why I strongly recommend that installation-defined symbols be > prefixed with a unique string, which I also recommend be the SHARE > installation code. It reduces the number of meaningful character to 5 or 6 > but pretty much rules out stepping on toes. Debugging problems caused by > symbol 'overlays' could be excruciating. > The namespace is too small in this 21st century. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
