
38 • Developing Essbase Applications: Advanced Techniques for Finance and IT Professionals
Hopefully, the mnemonic names aid in describing their object’s function. Did you notice the VAR_, OS_, PROC_,
and PKG_ prefixes? I use a kind of modified Hungarian notation, but instead of making the prefix lower case, I made
the descriptive prefix upper case because ODI desperately wants to create all names in upper case anyway. This naming
convention is not a requirement, but I find it much easier to read, particularly in the ODI Designer Navigator as shown
in Figure2.3 and Figure2.4. Table 2.2 shows the object types, their icons prefixes, and sample object ...