The fully qualified MVS data set or the absolute zFS pathname of the SOCKS configuration file (SOCKSCONFIGFILE)
Syntax rules:
If it is an zFS file, it must adhere to the following syntax rules:
- Begin with a forward slash
- Be the absolute pathname
- Contain 1-64 case-sensitive characters
- Each directory or file must begin with one or more adjacent forward slashes
- Every character after the last forward slash must be alphanumeric or > + & ! $ - / | _ < ? ` ; : # @ % ' " ~ { } [ ] \ * ( ) , . =
- zFS file names can be concatenated, as long as they do not exceed 64 characters
If it is an MVS data set, it must adhere to the following syntax rules:
- Must be a fully qualified name containing up to 44 characters, including periods.
- A qualified name is formed by concatenating unqualified names. Each unqualified name is called an index.
- An index must be separated from the other indices by periods, for example, A.B.Z.
- An index can contain up to 8 characters.
- The first character of an index must be alphabetic or national (A to Z, $, @, or #).
- Each subsequent character of an index must be alphanumeric, national (A to Z, 0 to 9, $, @, or #), the hyphen (-), or {.
- An optional member name can be concatenated at the end.
- The member name must be contained inside parentheses and be 1 to 8 characters.
- The first character of a member name must be alphabetic or national. (A to Z, $, @ or #)
- Each subsequent character of the member name must be alphanumeric, national, or {. (A to Z, 0 to 9, $, @, #, {)