Sweet. Did not pick up on that. All the more reason to prefix symbols with a unique string.
. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson > Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 07:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Bulk] Re: Manipulating system symbols > > 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
