A communications name has a restrictive name syntax. It is typically used to refer to a device configuration object whose name length and valid character set is limited by one or more communication architectures.
Communications names are the same as unquoted basic names with some exceptions:
An example of a communications name is shown as follows:
APPN3@@
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 can be exchanged with the remote systems include the following names: