Naming IBM Storage Protect objects
IBM® Storage Protect restricts the number and type of characters that you can use to name objects.
About this task
The following
characters are available for defining object
names.
Character | Description |
---|---|
A–Z | Any letter, A through Z |
0–9 | Any number, 0 through 9 |
_ | Underscore |
. | Period |
- | Hyphen |
+ | Plus |
& |
Ampersand |
The
following table shows the maximum length of characters permitted for
naming objects.
Type of Name | Maximum Length |
---|---|
Administrators, client option sets, client nodes, passwords, server groups, server, names, virtual file space names | 64 |
Restartable export identifiers | 64 |
High-level and low-level TCP/IP (IPv4 or IPv6) addresses | 64 |
Device classes, drives, libraries, management classes, policy domains, profiles, schedules scripts, backup sets, storage pools | 30 |
The following characters are available for defining password
names:
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 . ! @ # $ % ^ & * _ - + = ` ( )
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Passwords considered
LOCALare those passwords that authenticate with the IBM Storage Protect server and are not case-sensitive. Once a node or administrator is updated to use the SESSIONSECURITY=STRICT parameter, the password becomes case-sensitive the next time you change the it. Passwords considered
LDAPare those passwords that authenticate with an LDAP directory server and are case-sensitive.
When you use DEFINE commands to define database, recovery log, and storage pool volumes, the naming convention for the volume name is dependent on the type of sequential access media or random access media that you are using. Refer to the specific VOLUME command for details.