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Recommendations

• Use a variation of OS/400 and convention for those object types that are scarce, or that are referred to directly by the end user.

  - Use OS/400 type mnemonics to name such objects and use a single letter prefix to identify the application.

  - Use the form verb/noun for action-based names.

  - Use the form noun or adj/noun for subject based names.

  - Use work management objects (QPRINT and QPGMR) as shipped.

• Use a separate systematic convention, outlined below, for entities that occur in large numbers and which are normally referred to only by technical personnel.

IBM has adopted a similar approach for the system software of iSeries, as may be seen from the names of the objects in the system library, QSYS, or other shipped libraries such as QGPL, QRPG, QIDU. Internal objects, such as programs, are named, using systematic prefixes.