Product component naming conventions

A naming convention for WebSphere Business Integration 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 Business Integration Event Broker network are:
Brokers
When you create a broker, give it a name that is unique within your broker domain. You must use the same name for the same 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.

The workbench component is described in Configuring a broker domain in the workbench.

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 Configuration Manager and User Name Server are not allocated names when you create them. They are identified only by the name of the WebSphere MQ queue manager that hosts the services they provide.

There are a few restrictions for naming resources: see Naming conventions for WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker for z/OS.

Related concepts
Broker domain

Related tasks
Configuring a broker domain in the workbench

Related reference
mqsicreatebroker command
Naming conventions for WebSphere Business Integration Event Broker for z/OS