Communication names (*CNAME)

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:

  1. Periods (.) and underscores (_) cannot be used.
  2. For IBM® commands, *CNAME is limited to 8 characters.

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: