This describes the rules for creating communication names.
Communications names are the same as unquoted basic names with
the following exceptions:
- Periods (.) and underscores (_) cannot be used.
- For IBM® commands,
*CNAME is limited to 8 characters.
An example of a communications name is shown below:
APPN3@@
Note: Because restricted character sets are sometimes used by other IBM systems, use
caution when choosing names that use the special characters #, $, and @. These
special characters might not be on the remote system's keyboard. The names
that may be exchanged with the remote systems include the following:
- Network IDS
- Location names
- Mode names
- Class-of-service names
- Control point names