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Appendix A
Naming Conventions
Program Naming Conventions
Naming Conventions for Reports
Naming Conventions for Dialog Programs
Customer Name Ranges

Program Naming Conventions

There are two program types:
Reports
Dialog programs
Each program type has its own naming conventions. Table A.1 contains the characters that are not allowed in
program names.
Table A.1 Invalid Characters for Program Names
Character

Description

Period

Comma
Blank

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()

Parentheses

'

Single quote

"

Double quote

Equal sign

Asterisk

Underscore

Percent sign
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Umlaut and "scharfes s"

characters

Naming Conventions for Reports

Customer report names follow the convention Yaxxxxxx or Zaxxxxxx, where:
The first character must be a Y or Z.
The second character represents the application area.
The maximum program length is 10.
The second character is the short form for the application area (see Table A.2). For example, a customer
report for Treasury would follow the convention Z5xxxxxx, while a logistics report would be named
Z21xxxxx.
Each application area can be represented by a code. Each code has two commonly used forms, the short
form and the long form. There is also a code used only for logical database names. These codes are shown in
Table A.2.
Table A.2 Codes for the Application Areas in R/3
Application
Area

Long
Form

Short
Form

LDB
Form

FI

Materials Management

MM

Sales and Distribution

SD

Production Planning and Control

PP

Treasury

TR

Quality Management

QM

Project System

PS

Plant Maintenance

PM

Warehouse Management

WM

Human Resources

HR

10

Asset Accounting

AA

11

Controlling

CO

12

Process Industries

PI

13

Investment Management

IM

14

Logistics (General)

LO

21

International Development

IN

22

Cross Application Functionality

CA

23

Financial Accounting

Naming Conventions for Dialog Programs

Customer dialog program names follow the convention SAPMYxxx or SAPMZxxx, where:
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The first four characters must be SAPM.

The fifth character must be a Y or Z.
The last three characters may be any valid characters.
Programs written by SAP follow the convention SAPMaxxx, where ais the short form for an application area.

Customer Name Ranges

The R/3 system contains many types of development objects. If you want to create a development object
yourself, you must create it in the customer name range. The conventions for customer name ranges are
shown in Table A.3.
Table A.3 Customer Name Ranges for All R/3 Development Objects
Object
Type

Max
Length

Naming
Convention

ABAP/4 Query
Query
Functional Area
Function Group

2
4
3

*
*
*

Append Structures
Append Structure
Append Structure Fields

10
10

Y* Z*
YY* ZZ*

Application Logs
Object
Sub-Object

4
10

Y* or Z*
Y* or Z*

Area Menus

Y* Z*

Authorizations
Authorization

12

any

4
30
10

Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*

CATT Flows

Y* Z*

Change Document Objects

10

Y* or Z*

Codepages

9*

Data Elements
Data Element
Data Element Supplement

10
4

Y*Z*
*

9*

Data Models
Data Model
Entity

10
10

Y* Z*
Y* Z*

Development Classes

Y* Z*

Dialog Modules

30

Y* Z* RP_*
RH_INFOTYP_9*

Documentation Modules General Text

(TX)
Test Run Description
Main Chapter (BOOK)
Chapter of IMG
Chapter (CHAP)

28
20
20
20
20

Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*

Authorization Class
Authorization Group
Authorization Object

SAP Supplement

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Notes

Not allowed in 2nd position

If customer created the data

element
If SAP created the data element

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Chapter Note (NOTE) Release

Information
Structure
Online Text

26
20
12
28

Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*

Domains

10

Y* Z*

Enhancements
Enhancement
Enhancement Project

8
8

Y* Z*
*

Function Codes
Function Code
Menu Exit

4
4

Y* Z*
+*

Function Library
Function Group
User Exit Function Grp
Function Module
Field Exit Func Module

4
4
30
30

User Exit Func Module

Conversion Exits

30
30

Y* Z*
XZ*
Y_* Z_*
FIELD_EXIT_*
FIELD_EXIT_*_x
EXIT_pppppppp_nnn
CONVERSION_EXIT_xxxx_INPUT
CONVERSION_EXIT_xxxx_OUTPUT

GUI Status

IDOCs
Segment Type
Basis IDOC Type
Enhancement Type
IDOC Type

7
8
8
8

Z1*
Y* Z*
*
Y* Z*

Includes (DDIC)
Customizing Includes

10

CI_*

Includes (Program)
Include
Include for User Exits
(function modules)

8
8

Y* Z*
ZffffUnn ffff

Info Types

9*

Lock Object

10

EY* EZ*

Logical Databases

Y*a Z*a

Logistics Info System

Event
Unit

2
2

Y* Z*
Y* Z*

Maint. & Transport Objects

10

Y* Z*

Matchcodes
Matchcode
Matchcode Object

1
4

0-9
Y* Z*

Messages
Message Classes
Message Numbers

2
3

Y* Z*
*

Module Pools
Dialog Module Pools
Screen Module Pools
Info Type Module Pools
Subroutine Module Pools
Update Pgm Module Pools

8
8
8
8
8

SAPDY* SAPDZ*
SAPMY* SAPMZ*
MP9*
SAPFY* SAPFZ*
SAPUY* SAPUZ*

Number Range Objects

10

Y* Z*

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Only used in an SAP-created

table

= func group

a = app area (LDB form, see

Table A.2)

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Parameter Ids

Y* Z*

Printer Macros

Y* Z* 9*

Relation IDs

Y* Z*

R/3 Analyzer Identifier

20

Y* Z*

8
4

Y* Z*
Y* Z*
X* CUS&*

Reports
Report Name
Report Category
Report Variant
Transportable, Global
Transportable, Local Not
Transportable

14
14
14

Y*
Z*

Report Writer
Report
Report Group
Library
Standard Layout

8
4
3
7

*
*
*
*

1st char not 0-9

1st char not 0-9
1st char not 0-9
1st char not 0-9

SAPScript
Layout Set
Form
Standard Text ID
Standard Text Name
Style

12
16
4
32
8

Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*

1st char not 0-9

Screens

9*
>0

For screen exits for

customer dialog
programs

Spool
Layout Type
Font Group
Device Type
Page Format
System Barcode

16
8
8
8
8

Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*

Standard Task

9*

Standard Roll

9*

Structure (DDIC)

10

Y* Z*

SYSLOG Message ID

Y* Z*

Tables
Field Name

10

3
10

Y* Z*
Y* Z*

Index Name
Transparent, Pool,
Cluster Name
Pool Name

T9

Table Pool Name

Table Cluster Name

10
10

P9*
PA9* PB9*
PS9*
HRT9* HRP9*
HRI9*
Y* Z*
Y* Z*

Titlebars

Transaction Codes

Y* Z*

Type Group

Y* Z*

User Profiles

12

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In append structures:
YY* ZZ* only

For pooled tables in the

ATAB pool for
customer info types

_ not allowed in 2nd position

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Views
View Cluster
View Name
Help View

10
10
10

View Maintenance Data

View Content
Table Content

Workflow Object Type

10

Y* Z*
*
H_Y* H_Z*
reserved in TRESC
reserved in TRESC
Y* Z*

You will find that a few SAP objects exist within customer name ranges and thus intrude on the above naming
conventions. These objects were created before the preceding conventions were adopted. A list of these
exceptions can be found in table TDKZ.

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