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General Name Equivalence Rules

The adopted objects are matched based on the following categories:

• Objects of the same type and name
• Objects of the same type and name but within parents of common ancestry
• Objects with parents that have common ancestry
• Objects that cannot be selected for an adoption but can be adopted if its parent is adopted

The objects in each category are shown in the following lists.

Objects of the same type and name; this is the most common type of matching:

• BAA Common Action Blocks
• BSD Common Action Blocks
• Business Systems
• Component Implementations
• Component Models
• Component Specifications
• Configuration Instances
• Current Data Stores
• Databases
• Dialects
• Entity Types
• Events
• Exit States
• External Objects
• Functions
• Interface Types
• ISP objects
• Navigation Diagrams
• Processes
• Specification Types
• Storages Groups
• Subject Areas
• Typemaps
• Work Attribute Sets

Objects of the same type and name but within parents of common ancestry:

• Attributes
• Commands
• Configuration Instance
• Custom Proxies
• Custom Video Property
• Online Load Modules
• Operations Libraries
• Procedures
• Procedure Steps
• Server Managers
• Tablespaces
• Templates
• User-defined Objects
• Web Service Definition

  Note: First 32 characters of the name must be same.

• Window Load Modules
• Work Attributes
• z/OS Libraries

Objects with parents that have common ancestry. This matching occurs when parent and child objects have a one-to-one association:

• Data Columns
• Data Tables
• Primary identifying indexes

Objects that cannot be selected for an adoption but can be adopted if its parent is adopted:

• Batch Jobs
• Batch Job Steps
• Default Edit Patterns
• Dialog boxes
• Entity Views
• Group Views
• Identifiers
• Implementation Units
• Packaging for procedure steps
• Permitted Values
• RI Trigger Action Blocks
• Procedure Step Action Blocks
• Process Action Blocks
• Screen Implementations
• Screens
• Subtypes
• System-defined PF keys
• Technical Systems
• Windows