Step 2. Planning a naming convention

Outlining a naming methodology for the agents you plan to install now and in the future is a good strategy, especially because names can include a maximum of four characters. A well-defined and documented naming convention will help you to automatically name any agents you add in the future.

Because it is difficult to have meaningful names of four characters, you should take advantage of each character to provide information about the agent. For example, you could use the first letter to classify the agent as a fault-tolerant workstation from a regular IBM Z Workload Scheduler CPU, the second character to identify the domain, the platform, or the operating system, and the last two digits to identify the specific agent.

Another good idea is to take advantage of the workstation description field available in every IBM Z Workload Scheduler workstation definition. You can use this 32-character field to write more readable information for identifying agents.