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Naming Conventions in Tivoli Storage Manager

When you use DEFINE commands to define volumes for the database, recovery log and storage pools, the naming convention for the volume name is dependent on the type of sequential access media or random access media you are using. This publication provides the command syntax and rules to follow when naming these volumes.

Naming Objects in Tivoli Storage Manager

Tivoli Storage Manager restricts the number and type of characters that you can use to name objects.

The following characters are available for defining object names.

A-Z Any letter, A through Z
0-9 Any number, 0 through 9
_ Underscore
. Period
- Hyphen
+ Plus
& Ampersand
Note:
A password is not case sensitive.

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 64
Device classes, management classes, policy domains, profiles, schedules, scripts, backup sets storage pools 30


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