I suppose the way one groups the letters would be influenced by one's own habits. I would expect that experienced z/OS programmers would know that for the past few decades, new macro names follow the same convention as module names and message IDs by starting with the 3 character prefix of the owning component.
IEA - component prefix T - Transaction DUMP - Dump Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Date: 08/26/2018 01:07 AM > Subject: Re: IEATDUMP MF=L Can someone explain this? > Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" <ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> > Who thinks up these macro names, anyway? That one wouldn't pass muster > as a California vanity license plate.
