Naming conventions

IBM InfoSphere Enterprise Records supports automatically generating default names for entities, based on a naming pattern. In addition, you can configure an incremental number as a volume name suffix.

Naming patterns

A naming pattern specifies rules used to automatically generate names when new entities are added to a file plan. You specify patterns for record categories and record folders at particular levels in the file plan. For records, you specify the pattern in its parent container. After associating the naming pattern with the file plan, new categories, folders, and records automatically get a name that matches the next available name for the entity type and level in the file plan. However, the user creating the entity can still modify that default name during or after the Add process.

Volume name suffix

A volume name suffix is an incremental number that acts as a suffix in the volume name. The names of volumes are generated automatically. The volume name consists of the record folder name followed by a hyphen (-), followed by the volume pattern suffix. For example, if the name of a record folder is RFLegal and the Volume pattern suffix is 00 (indicates number of digits), the first volume name will be RFLegal-01. If the incremental value is 2, then the next new volume will be named RFLegal-03. By default, the value of the suffix is "00000" and the incremental value is 1.