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Name Segment Requirements

Each name segment for the four different entity types has a required length. When not using delimiters, you need to pad the name segment with blanks to maintain the required length. The following table shows the number of characters required for each segment.

Entity Type

Name Segment

Length

SUBSCHEMA

Subschema

8

 

Schema

8

SET

Set

32*

 

Schema

8

MODULE

Module

32

 

Language

8

LOGICAL-RECORD

Logical-record

16

 

Subschema

8

 

Schema

8