Reporting Facility Rules for Coding › User-Module Names

User-Module Names

When Reporting Facility standard facilities are insufficient to process a specific request, you may need to supply an accessible alternate processing module. The modules can perform different functions, but naming conventions are the same.

Follow these conventions when assigning a user-module name:

• The first character of the user-module name must be alphabetic (A—Z) and all other characters must be in the range of A—Z or 0—9. No special characters are allowed.
• Module names have a maximum length of eight characters.
• The Reporting Facility reserves some special module names for internal use. These modules generally begin with DR. Avoid beginning your module names with DR since unpredictable results occur if any of the Reporting Facility special modules are overlaid.

Valid User-Module Names

• DBALTURT
• ACCESS02
• PRTXIT
• X

Invalid User-Module Names

The following entries result in the described error conditions:

123:

First character is not A—Z.

MODULENAMETOOLONG

Name exceeds maximum length.

db#1

Special character is present.

INPUT

Name is a reserved word.