Would that there were some sort of standard. :) I have worked with literally hundreds of sites and migrated and supported them for years and there is no "standard" that they all (or even any large subset of them) follow when it comes to naming 3rd party datasets.
Some use OEM1(,2,3,) some use the vendor name (CA, BMC, SAG, LRS, ORACLE), some use the second level name (SYS1.CA, SYS1.SYZYGY), some use a variation on the word "VENDOR" (VNDR, VND, V), the only common thread seems to be that there is no common thread. If your Systems Programmer wants to use SYS3, then that's great, although it's not really going to help to have a SYS3.LINKLIB if you can't tell who's linklib it is. But maybe he uses SYS3.vendor.library.name, in which case it's not much better than any other alternative. Possibly he wants to keep everything in the master catalog, or some specific catalog, but he could just as well give them all different names and keep the aliases in a "CATALOG.VENDOR" catalog and have the same outcome. Actually, there really isn't any reason to have them all use the same HLQ, unless that's what he wants. If it makes his system easier for him to maintain to keep it that way, then no matter what anyone else thinks or says, he is going to do it that way and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
