About Reserved Characters and Strings
The following guidelines regarding reserved characters and strings must be followed:
>!, #, and $ are reserved characters and cannot be used in any of the following:
•Feature name
•Feature version
•Public vendor information
•Private vendor information
•License vendor information
•License sharing criteria (for example, hostname/username)
>Space is a reserved character and cannot be used in any of the following:
•Feature name
•Feature version
•Public vendor information
•Private vendor information
•License vendor information
>'011' must not be specified as a feature name and 'oil' must not be specified as a feature version.
>NiL and Ni are reserved strings and cannot be used in any of the following:
•Feature name
•Feature version
• Public vendor information
•Private vendor information
•License vendor information
># is a comment character and all text appearing after this will be ignored in the vendor information (public, private, and license vendor information).
>###, $$$ and !!! character strings are reserved for internal processing. If a login user name or host name of a client machine contains any of these reserved character strings, the license request is denied.
>Comma (",") is a reserved character for secret text and must be avoided (Sentinel RMS v10 onwards) for license generation purposes.