External symbol in PDS |
8 |
Prelinker can be used to create truncated
names |
External symbol in PO1 |
64 |
Longer names cause automatic promotion to
a higher level unless restricted by the COMPAT option |
External symbol in PO2 and PO3 |
1024 |
Longer names cause automatic promotion to
PO4 unless restricted by the COMPAT option |
External symbol in PO4+ |
32767 |
|
Section name |
|
Same as the other external symbols defined
above |
Class name |
16 |
User-defined names should not exceed 14
bytes, and must not begin with B_ or C_ |
Member name |
8 |
Should be upper case alphanumeric. Does
not apply to UNIX files Binder
allows 1024 for PDSE but will generate an 8 byte member name for system
use if user-defined name exceeds 8 characters. |
UNIX program
name |
255 |
Primary or alternate names. Includes file
extension, if any, but not path |
Alias name in PDS |
8 |
Should be upper case alphanumeric. |
Alias name in PDSE |
1024 |
64 in PO1 |
DDname |
8 |
Upper case alphanumeric. |
Data set name |
44 |
Upper case alphanumeric plus periods. |
Path name |
1023 |
Must begin with / (for absolute path)
or ./ (for relative path) |