Brian,

I wasn't aware either, we go through Partnerworld. Then someone, not sure
who, assigned us (IDMWORKS) the three character message/module prefix. The
I asked IBM for our customer anchor, Peter kindly responded with it.

Regards,
Scott

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 11:57 AM Tony Harminc <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2 July 2017 at 10:15, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I think you would risk trademark issues as well as name collision issues
> if you used iBM. And yes, IBM claims the entire space AAA-I99 or perhaps
> J99, including IBM.
>
> In fact the specific prefix IBM was assigned 30+ years ago to the PL/I
> runtime library. Doubtless this is another example of product authors
> or their management gaming the system. See also the JES2 macros and
> control blocks like $DILBERT and $DOGBERT.
>
> Tony H.
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