Project naming conventions

Use these conventions when you name your projects. IBM® InfoSphere® DataStage®, IBM InfoSphere QualityStage®, and IBM InfoSphere Information Analyzer store jobs, analyses, and logs in these projects.

You need to choose the name of one InfoSphere DataStage project during the initial installation. The name of a project is limited to a maximum of 40 characters. The project name can contain alphanumeric characters, including underscores (_). Project names cannot use these reserved letter combinations:
  • ds
  • DS
  • uv
  • UV

Example

A useful naming scheme has project names that you maintain in unison with the source code control. As projects are promoted through the source control, the name of the phase and the project reflect the version in this form:
Phase_ProjectName_version
where Phase corresponds to the phase in the application development life cycle:
dev
Development
it
Integration test
uat
User acceptance test
prod
Production