So conventions are on a shop basis.  Whatever the shop wants to use, is the 
convention

I have known some shops to use this

   SYS1CA    for all CA Products
   SYS1IBM   for all IBM products
   SYS1ORC   for all Oracle products and so on 

I have known some shops to use this

   SYS1 - all IBM Products
   SYS2 - Vendor A products
   SYS3 - Vendor B products

And so on.

When they got to SYS9 - they began to uses SYSA

Some shops do

SYS1 - Only MCAT products    then use second level qualifier to identify vendor 
- IBM CA etc 

When some shops install Serverpac, they use CEE for LE, BPX, etc  that is the 
names used by IBM

When some shops install Serverpac, they change the IBM names in server pac to 
shop standards - SYS1.CEE rather than CEE

Everything is based on what the shop standards are.

So bottom line, No Standard for naming convention.  Each shop makes that 
determination.  And that standard is affected by your SAF product and 
application naming convetions.


SYS3 is not a standard in the business to indicate a 3rd party vendor.


HTH

Lizette


> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Tony Thigpen
> Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2017 7:18 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: SYS3 datasets
> 
> We have a staff z/OS systems programmer who claims that:
> "Almost all shops use the SYS3. HLQ to indicate third party software."
> 
> So new software installs *have* to follow that "rule". (Past installs did not
> follow such a rule.)
> 
> I am thinking that this "rule" is really just *his* rule.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> How many other sites follow such a rule?
> 
> --
> Tony Thigpen
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