I would suggest they use the 3 character message prefix. On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 2016 03:33:36 -0600, Art Gutowski wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin >>>> Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2016 12:03 PM >>>> > >>>> The namespace is too small in this 21st century. >> >>I have a counter-proposal. IBM can reserve certain prefixes or even complete >>names, as they do for SYSMOD IDs, that are off-limits, or >>use-at-your-own-risk. They can further set up a registry, as they do for >>module names, and while this registry is voluntary, we can certainly >>encourage vendors to participate. >> > Such a registry shouldn't be the province of any single supplier; it should be > global. The prefix an ISV uses for z/OS should likewise apply to Linux, > OS X, Windows, ... There's a nascent convention of using a registered domain > name, wrtten big-endian, as a qualifier, such as com.gm or edu.ua.listserv. > That convention should be embraced more widely. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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