Hello Scott,
Yes the name ALL will confuse lots of commands. The use of ALL for a name should be a major 'YOU SHALL NOT'. I am thinking of a wise old application programmer that made a job call ALL. And he deleted it out of the LST Queue. What to guess what happened? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 10:54 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Dasd Volser standards documented Haven't tried it, but was thinking naming a DASD volume named ALL might confuse some commands? Seems like over the years there have been either userids or volume names that needed to be restricted/discouraged for such reasons... but I don't remember seeing a specific list offhand. Scott Rohling On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Marcy Cortes <marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: But some other o/s's or tools don't like x'40's in them. So don't use less than 6. Can't remember if it was z/OS or some component of GDPS, but play it safe and use six. marcy ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 7:37 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Dasd Volser standards documented >From ICKDSF VOLID(serial) Writes the volume serial number in the volume or minidisk label. For serial, substitute 1 to 6 alphanumeric characters for the volume serial number. If fewer than six characters are specified, the serial is left-justified, and the remainder of the field is padded with blanks (X'40'). On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Philip Tully <tull...@optonline.net> wrote: I appreciate the responses, but the specifics are I am looking for are what should not be used. I think we all have enough experience to know we should use and '*' in the volser, but are these kind of restrictions documented?
