Required?: YES

The program field identifies the program, it must be unique among all programs to develop as a vendor (vendor + program must be unique on a system). It can be up to 128 characters long (BUT possibly limited to far less - see note below about http-action links), but again, the shorter the better for a cleaner UI.

Hard-code this value into each of the programs, with the one exception of a run-inparallel-for-trial use-case. If you plan on deploying your application in such a way as to let multiple instances (and versions) of it be connected to the same academic suite instance then you should refer to Deploying multiple concurrent versions for directions.

The sum of the lengths of the vendor identifier and program identifier must be less than or equal to 63 characters in length to support any links elements. To support links elements then these must be us-ascii characters only.