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.
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