Product component naming conventions

A naming convention for WebSphere Event Broker resources throughout your network ensures that names are unique, and that users creating new resources can be confident of not introducing duplication or confusion.

The resources you must create and name within an WebSphere Event Broker network are:
Configuration Managers
When you create a Configuration Manager, give it a name that is unique on your system. Names must be unique between Configuration Managers and between Configuration Managers and brokers. Configuration Manager names are case sensitive on UNIX systems.
Brokers
When you create a broker, give it a name that is unique within your broker domain. You must use the same name for that broker when you create it on the system in which it is installed (using the command mqsicreatebroker) and when you create a reference to that broker in the broker domain topology in the workbench. The latter is a representation of the physical broker (created by mqsicreatebroker) in the configuration repository, and this single name links the two. Broker names are case-sensitive except on Windows platforms.
Execution groups
Each execution group name must be unique within a broker.
Message flows and message processing nodes
Each message processing node must be unique within the message flow it is assigned to. For example, if you include two MQOutput nodes in a single message flow, provide a unique name for each.

Message flow names must be unique within the broker domain. Any reference to that name within the broker domain is always to the same message flow. You can assign the same message flow to many brokers.

Message sets and messages
Each message name must be unique within the message set to which it belongs.

Message set names must be unique within the broker domain. Any reference to that name within the broker domain is always to the same message set. You can therefore assign the same message set to many brokers.

The User Name Server is not allocated a name when you create it. It is identified only by the name of the WebSphere MQ queue manager that hosts the services it provides.

Related concepts
Broker domains
Related tasks
Configuring a broker domain in the workbench
Related reference
mqsicreatebroker command
Naming conventions for WebSphere Event Broker for z/OS