Naming conventions

Policy names and configuration names must be unique within the repository where they are stored. The names of policy elements must be unique within that policy. If there is an element with the same name and type in the current policy an error is reported.

The length of names and the character set that can be used are restricted.

Named elements within a provisioning policy or a domain configuration, and elements referencing external entities such as a system name or the logical name of a CPC must conform to the rules defined in Table 12. In this table, the hyphen (-) indicates that any ASCII character within the range is valid.

Table 12. Naming restrictions
Name	Minimum length	Maximum length	Initial character	Subsequent characters
Domain	1	8	A - Z	A - Z, 0 - 9, #
Provisioning policy	1	8	A - Z	A - Z, 0 - 9, #
Provisioning rule	1	12	A - Z, a - z	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, _
Provisioning condition	1	12	A - Z, a - z	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, _
Time condition	1	12	A - Z, a - z	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, _
Workload condition	1	12	A - Z, a - z	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, _
WLM service definition	1	8	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @, _
WLM service policy	1	8	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @, _
WLM service class	1	8	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @, _
Domain configuration	1	8	A - Z	A - Z, 0 - 9, #
System	1	8	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @
Sysplex	1	8	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @
CPC	1	8	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @
CPC record ID	8	8	A - Z, 0 - 9	A - Z, 0 - 9
Description	0	128	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @, _, blank, nl, period	A - Z, a - z, 0 - 9, #, $, %, @, _, blank, nl, period
Group	1	8	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @	A - Z, 0 - 9, #, $, @