These modules will contain terminology you may not be familiar with. Please take a few moments to review the following terms.

Naming Conventions

Rules for naming data sets. The UND naming conventions were created to ease the process of allocating new data sets and to incorporate storage management procedures.

Sequential Data Set

A file (data set) that contains data. It may be a stand-alone file or it may be a member of a partitioned data set.

Partitioned Data Set

 A file (data set) that contains one or more sequential data sets known as members. This allows you to organize data sets according to categories.

Qualifier

 A word that makes up part of a data set name. Each qualifier consists of 1 to 8 alphabetics (A-Z), numeric (0-9), or national ($#@) characters. The first character of a qualifier must be either alphabetic or national. A period (.) is used as a separator between qualifiers.

Member

A term used to describe a data set that is part of a partitioned data set. Think of a partitioned data set as a shelf and the members as books on the shelf.