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2.2.1 General Naming Conventions

The CA MICS libraries contain a large number of members. To
help keep the list of member names from becoming too
bewildering, several general naming conventions are followed.
In addition to these general conventions, there are other
conventions that are used within particular libraries or sets
of libraries.  Those are discussed in the sections that
follow this one.  None of the conventions that are described
below are followed in every case.  However, being familiar
with the general rules will make a large number of CA MICS
members identifiable just by looking at the member name.

The general naming conventions used in CA MICS are:

    - Macro member names begin with '$' or '#' in the source
      library and with a generic name or file/component ID in
      the MACAUTOS library.

    - The component identifier, ccc, is used in names of
      members that occur once for each component.

    - The file identifier, fff, is used in names of members
      that occur once for each file.

    - Members named cccPGEN are used in parameter generation.

    - Members named cccCGEN are used in component generation.

    - Members used for one of the CA MICS operational jobs
      contain some reference to the job name, e.g., DAY,
      WEEK, MONTH, YEAR, or DY, WK, MN, YR.