Brian,

Yes, I agree, we use IDENTI...

Scott

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 12:42 AM Brian Westerman <
[email protected]> wrote:

> With the NAME/TOKEN, it would be pretty hard to accidentally use the same
> token name (assuming you give your token a non-generic name).  For ours
> they all start with "Syzygy_somthing" or "Syz_somethingelse" and since you
> have 16 bytes to play with you would have to try pretty hard to
> "accidentally" use it.
>
> At first we were worried that "Syz" was close to "Sys" but when it came
> down to it, there were too many other characters in the name(s) that
> chances of reusing someone else's was deemed to be extremely low.
>
> I have since noticed that a lot of vendors even use non-readable
> characters to be really sure they are unique.  We have considered doing
> something like that, but decided that seeing Syz was important if we ever
> actually had a problem that warranted a dump.
>
> Brian
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
>
-- 
Scott Ford
IDMWORKS
z/OS Development

----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Reply via email to