Re: Profiles beginning with special chars

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

The system allows @, as well as $ and # - other than than any letter, A 
through z, and any number, 0 through 9.

The documentation does say that these 3 characters are at hex values 
x'5B', x'7B', x'7C' in CCSID 37 and others. But not all - so they 
recommend against using them, generally. But if you are always going to 
be US only, it is probably OK.

*Regards*

*Vern Hamberg*

IBM Champion 2025 <cid:part1.nIM8rrr2.207Ubwuh@centurylink.net> CAAC 
(COMMON Americas Advisory Council) IBM Influencer 2023

On 4/10/2025 8:41 AM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am creating a new process to assist my client's help desk with profile
> creation.  The current process is very convoluted and has to go away.
>
>   
>
> For the new process, I am proposing using "template" profiles to be copied
> to generate the new profile.  I am thinking about beginning the template
> profiles with an @ as in @PGMR, @USER, @QA, @HELPDESK, etc.  Then I can do
> sql to pull all of the @ profiles to provide a list of available templates
> for them to choose from.
>
>   
>
> Does anyone know if there are any problems with creating profiles that begin
> with an @?  The system allows it but I didn't know if there was a reason not
> to.