Yes, but there are no standards, yet! The nice thing about standards, is there are so many to choose from! ------Original Message------ From: Don Leahy Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Apr 28, 2009 17:17 Subject: Re: ISPF Question
I think that everyone would want to reserve "ED" and "BR" and other obvious ones such as WHEREIS, WHOGOT etc. On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: >>This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for a while; does anyone >>know if there's a way to 'reserve' command table abbreviations? > > No there is not. > Like most standards, you need to reach an agreement. > > Years ago, we had the same issue with SMF User records (numbers greater than > 127). > Somebody finally decided to create a mini-consortium to agree that certain > products would always use the same numbers, so they were reserved. > But, that took a long time. > > So did IBM's assignment of product prefixes to ISV's, such as K for Candle > (now part of Tivoli). > > So, I'd say you need a new consortium. > > - > Too busy driving to stop for gas! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
