Name and Related Artifact Limits

Table 236 lists limits for names and related artifacts.

Table 236. Names and Related Artifacts

Artifact

Limits

Alias name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 80 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 80 characters

Alias table name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 30 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 30 characters

Application name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 8 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 30 characters

Application description

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 79 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 80 characters

  • Custom-defined function name

  • Custom-defined macro name

  • Custom-defined function specification

  • Custom-defined macro specification

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 127 bytes.

    MaxL and the API truncate characters after 127 bytes.

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 128 characters.

    MaxL and the API truncate characters after 128 characters.

In either case, no truncation on server. No error is displayed if truncation occurs.

Custom-defined function and macro comment

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 255 bytes.

    MaxL and the API truncate characters after 255 bytes.

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 256 characters.

    MaxL and the API truncate characters after 256 characters.

In either case, no truncation on server. No error is displayed if truncation occurs.

Database name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 8 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 30 characters

Database description

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 79 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 80 characters

Directory path

For example: EPM_ORACLE_HOME/products/Essbase/EssbaseServer/bin

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 255 characters

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 1024 characters

Environment variable name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 320 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 320 characters

Environment variable value

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 256 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 256 characters

Essbase Server name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 1024 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 1024 characters

Filename for calculation scripts, report scripts, and rules files

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 8 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit:

    • If included within a path, the smaller of the following two values:

      • 1024 bytes

      • The limit established by the operating system

    • If not included within a path, as in some MaxL statements, 1024 bytes.

Filename for text and Excel files

Non-Unicode application limit: 8 bytes

Filter name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 256 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 256 characters

Group name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 256 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 256 characters

LRO cell note

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 600 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 600 characters

LRO URL

512 characters (always single-byte characters)

LRO description for URLs and files

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 80 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 80 characters

Member comment field

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 255 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 256 characters

Member name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 80 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 80 characters

Qualified member name limit: the number of levels that can be specified in a qualified member name

  • 20 levels

Password

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 100 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 100 characters

Substitution variable name

320 bytes

Substitution variable value

256 bytes

Trigger name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 30 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 30 characters

UDA

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 80 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 80 characters

User name

  • Non-Unicode application limit: 256 bytes

  • Unicode-mode application limit: 256 characters