Naming conventions and limitations

Some characters are reserved for use as delimiters by the operating systems, INFORMIX, or Rational® Synergy, and cannot be used in object names.

For example, the colon (:), slash (/), and backslash (\) characters (among others) cannot be used in object names. Project names must not contain tabs. See the Rational Synergy Information Center “Reference” sections Naming and formatting and Case and file name limit database options for detailed information.

Rational Synergy places limits on the lengths of various names and other strings. These limits are in terms of bytes, not characters. Some error messages might describe limits in terms of characters. The messages are incorrect and actually refer to byte length limits. All strings are held internally in Rational Synergy as UTF-8, so the length limits in Asian characters are one third of the byte limit. For example, the length of an object name is limited to 180 bytes, which implies a limit of 60 Asian characters. Version strings are limited to 96 bytes, or 32 Asian characters.


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