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Preface
PAM Writing Rules
Illegal Characters
The following table lists the illegal characters that must not be used in PAM identifiers.
Illegal Characters
à, é, è, ù, ^, ¨ Accentuated letters
/ Slash
\ Backslash
“ Double quote
’ Simple quote
‘ Inverted comma
& Ampersand
+ Plus
* Asterisk
% Percent
= Equal sign
< Less–than sign
> Greater–than sign
: Colon
! Exclamation mark
? Question mark
; Semi–colon
, Comma
~ Tilde
I Pipe operator
Space. Use – (dash) or _ (underscore)
Table 1. PAM illegal characters
String Lengths
The following table lists authorized string lengths.
String Type Length
CellBlock / System Name 16
Scheme Name 32
History Name 64
Archive Name 75 (History Name: + 11 (_JJMMAA_nnn)
LUN Name 32
Switch Name 32
Event Name 32
Description 256 (Scheme: unlimited)
Domain Identity Name 16
Table 2. String length rules