Naming Tivoli Storage Manager objects

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

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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 "LOCAL" are those passwords that authenticate with the Tivoli Storage Manager server and are not case-sensitive. Passwords considered "LDAP" are 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.