Naming Restrictions for Applications (Essbase)

For detailed information on creating Essbase applications and databases, see the Essbase product documentation.

When naming Planning or Essbase reporting applications, follow these rules:

  • For non-Unicode mode applications and databases, use no more than 8 characters; for Unicode-mode applications and databases, use no more than 30 characters.

  • Do not use spaces.

  • Do not use these special characters:

    • asterisks

    • backslashes

    • brackets

    • colons

    • commas

    • equal signs

    • greater than signs

    • less than signs

    • periods

    • plus signs

    • question marks

    • quotation marks (double and single)

    • semicolons

    • slashes

    • tabs

    • vertical bars

  • For Planning application names in relational database environments, do not use extended characters (except for underscores).

  • For aggregate storage databases, do not use DEFAULT, LOG, METADATA, or TEMP as application names.

Enter names in the preferred case. Application names are created exactly as entered.