Item |
Limit |
Allowed characters, etc. |
Regular Expression1 |
Object name |
200 characters |
A-Z, 0-9, ., _, -, @, #, $ (See also: Naming conventions) |
^[A-Z0-9@#$\._\-]{1,200}$ |
User object name |
200 characters |
Same as for object name, but with exactly one '/' character separating the user name and the department. |
^[A-Z0-9@#$\._\-/]{1,200}$ |
Task alias |
200 characters |
Same as for object name. Can be further limited by ALIAS_SPECIAL_CHARACTERS in UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS |
^[A-Z0-9@#$\._\-]{1,200}$ |
Object title |
512 characters |
Any UTF-8 character2 Was 255 characters prior to v24.
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^\P{C}{0,512}$
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Archive key 1 |
512 characters
|
Same as for object title. UTF-8 since v24. Was 60 characters prior to v24. |
^\P{C}{0,512}$
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Archive key 2 |
512 characters |
Same as for object title. UTF-8 since v24. Was 20 characters prior to v24. |
^\P{C}{0,512}$
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Int. account |
16 bytes3 |
Same as for object title. UTF-8 since v24. |
^\P{C}$
^[\u0000-\uFFFF]{0,16}
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Max. return code |
10 digits |
0-9. |
^[0-9]{1,10}$ |
Folder name |
255 characters |
Same as for object name. |
^[A-Z0-9@#$\._\-]{1,255}$ |
Script variable name |
32 characters4 |
A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, $, @, §, # First character must not be a number or a $ symbol. Partially case-preserving, but not case-sensitive. |
^\&[A-Za-z0-9_\$@§#]{1,32}$ |
Array name |
24 characters4 |
Same as for Script variable name. |
^\&[A-Za-z0-9_\$@§#]{1,24}$ |
Object/prompt set variable name |
32 characters4 |
A-Z, 0-9, _, $, @, §, # First letter must not be a number. Not case sensitive. |
^\&[A-Z][A-Z0-9_\$@§#]{1,31}$ |
Script variable value |
8,388,608 bytes (223) |
Allowed characters: Same as for object title. UTF-8 since v24. Maximum length limited by MAX_VARIABLE_SIZE in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. Valid range: 1024–8388608 bytes. Octupled in v24. |
^\P{C}$
^[\u0000-\uFFFF]{0,8388608}
|
Object variable value |
Unlimited |
Allowed characters: Same as for object title Length unlimited since v11.1. Multi-line text since v11.1. UTF-8 since v24. |
^.+$ |
Scripting tab line |
? bytes/chars |
Same as for object title. UTF-8 since v24.
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Static VARA key |
200 characters |
Allowed characters: Same as for object title. UTF-8 since v24. |
^.{1,200}$ |
Static VARA value |
Unlimited |
Allowed characters: Same as for object title Length unlimited since v11.1. Multi-line text since v11.1. UTF-8 since v24. |
^.+$ |
Agent/Agent Group name |
32 characters |
A-Z, 0-9, ., _, - |
^[A-Z0-9\._\-]{0,32}$ |
Client |
4 decimal digits |
0-9 (0 is reserved for the system client. 0001-9999 are available for normal clients.) |
^[0-9]{4}$ |
System name |
8 characters |
A-Z, 0-9, _ |
^[A-Z,0-9,_]{8}$ |
Time zone |
8 characters |
? |
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Service Manager destination/phrase |
16 characters |
A-Z, a-z, 0-9, _, - The SMgr actually supports destination names up to 31 characters, but the Automation Engine and AWI have problems with names longer than 16 characters. |
^[A-Z0-9_\-]{0,16}$ |
Run ID |
2,147,483,647 (231-1) |
The Automation Engine stores run IDs internally as 31-bit integers. |
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Tasks per workflow |
Unlimited |
Workflows with many tasks may cause high memory consumption & poor UI performance. (See the discussion on AE & AWI sizing.) |
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Levels of nested workflows |
Unlimited |
Was 16 prior to version 10. |
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Levels of nested JOBIs |
16 |
See Includes (JOBI). Prior to version 12.3, the nesting limit was 5 levels, e.g., in version 12.2. |
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Levels of task recursion |
9999 (Default: 16) |
Adjust via MAX_NESTING_DEPTH in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. |
|
:PRINT line |
1024 characters |
Lines longer than 1024 characters are truncated at 1021 characters, and the last three characters are replaced with '...'. |
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Script lines per scripting tab |
32,767 (216-1) |
See Process Pages in the AE documentation. |
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Generated JCL lines |
1024 |
Can be increased if necessary by setting MAX_JCL_LINES job attribute. |
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Rows per static VARA |
Unlimited |
Limited only by the underlying database. |
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Characters in SQL VARA |
4096 |
Applies to SQL, SQL, SEC_SQL, and SEC_SQLI VARA objects. |
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Rows returned by SQL VARA |
500,000 (Default: 200) |
Adjust via SQLVAR_MAX_ROWS in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. |
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Rows returned by BACKEND VARA |
500,000 (Default: 200) |
Adjust via BACKENDVAR_MAX_ROWS in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. |
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# of search results returned: objects |
20,000 (Default: 5000) |
Adjust via GENERIC_SEARCH_LIMIT in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. |
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# of search results returned: active tasks |
20,000 (Default: 5000) |
Adjust via GENERIC_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. |
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# of search results displayed in the AWI: active tasks |
Unknown (Default: 500) |
Adjust via COMBINED_ACTIVITIES_LIMIT in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. This setting affects the AWI only, not the JUI or Java/REST APIs. |
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# of search results returned: statistical records |
20,000 (Default: 5000) |
Adjust via GENERIC_STATISTICS_LIMIT in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. |
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XML export/import: file size |
30 MB |
Can be further limited using MAX_IMPORT_SIZE system setting. Exporting/importing very large XML files may cause high memory consumption & poor UI performance. (See the discussion on AE & AWI sizing.) |
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XML export: # of objects |
1,000,000 (Default: 1000) |
Adjust via MAX_EXPORT_COUNT in UC_SYSTEM_SETTINGS. |
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