Folder and document names

Folder and document names should describe the contents of the folder or document.

Folder names must be unique and should be easy to type, as well as descriptive to a user. To find a particular folder on the system and change a document stored in it, you must either supply the folder name or select it from a list of names.

Document names must be unique in the folder and should be easy to type, as well as descriptive. You should give careful consideration to the names you use to help you find the document later.

The name you use for a folder or a document must follow these rules:

Notes:
  1. In CL commands, folder path names must be enclosed in single quotation marks to prevent the system from processing them as qualified (library/object) names. If a single quotation mark is to be part of the name, it must be specified as two consecutive single quotation marks.
  2. A number of CL commands act on either documents or folders, and some act on both. The abbreviation DLO (document library object) is used when referring to either a document or folder.
  3. In CL commands, folder and document names must be enclosed in single quotation marks if they contain characters that are CL delimiters.
  4. The system does not recognize graphic characters; it recognizes only code points and uses the following assumptions:
    • All folder and document names are encoded using single-byte EBCDIC code pages. Since code points hex 41 through FE represent graphic characters in those code pages, they are the only code points that can be used in folder and document names.
    • Code point hexadecimal 5C represents the asterisk (*); 61 represents the slash (/); and 6F represents the question mark (?). They cannot be used in folder and document names.
    • The code points for lowercase letters in English are converted to the code points for uppercase letters. Hexadecimal 81 through 89 are converted to C1 through C9; 91 through 99 are converted to D1 through D9; and A2 through A9 are converted to E2 through E9.

In addition to the folder and document names previously described, folders and documents are internally classified in the system by their system object names. These are 10-character names derived from date/time stamps, and, while they are generally not known to the user, they may be specified on some CL commands by specifying *SYSOBJNAM for the folder or document name and by specifying the system object name in a separate parameter.