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Use Naming Conventions

Use of appropriate and meaningful naming conventions when defining your SMP/E and CA IDMS data sets will simplify identification and maintenance of your CA IDMS environments.

When performing a CA IDMS SMP/E installation we recommended you take the following step:

• Put a release indicator (like R180) in the high-level qualifiers when creating the SMP/E environment.

When performing a CA IDMS configuration we recommended you take the following steps:

• Put a release indicator (like R180) in the CFGPFX variable in VARBLIST.
• Do not include a release indicator in the DBPFX variable in VARBLIST.

Business Value:

This practice clearly segregates your SMP/E environments by release and makes it easy to identify the release for which an environment was created. Not including a release indicator in database file names eliminates the need for manually creating new files each time you upgrade to a new release. The same set of database files will be used for all releases of CA IDMS.

Additional Considerations:

Any type of installation creates new SMP/E data sets. An upgrade does not create new database files.