# Does Maia have the concept of reserved words for Job Name / Project Name like METL did?

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**Created:** [May 20, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://matillioncommunity.discourse.group/t/does-maia-have-the-concept-of-reserved-words-for-job-name-project-name-like-metl-did/3515 "2026-05-20T06:51:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2026, 6:51am UTC](https://matillioncommunity.discourse.group/t/does-maia-have-the-concept-of-reserved-words-for-job-name-project-name-like-metl-did/3515/1 "2026-05-20T06:51:11Z")

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Here is an old post demonstrating what I’m talking about:

> [@Evaluating Job Name / Component Name at run time?](https://matillioncommunity.discourse.group/t/evaluating-job-name-component-name-at-run-time/1359):
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> Hi all, &nbsp; I'm using Matillion ETL for Snowflake to connect to a relational database source to ingest and transform data into Snowflake. &nbsp; Let's say I have 5 hardcoded ingest jobs that handle peculiarities of each job: Job AJob BJob CJob DJob E&nbsp; For each of these ingest jobs, I can determine common attributes, such as: Number of delta records ingestedEarliest modified datetime of the records captured in the deltaMost recent modified datetime of the records captured in the delta&nbsp; As I can generate…

I could capture and display {job\_name} in METL and it would give me the name of the current pipeline job. Same with {job\_id} for the unique job\_id from the Matillion task history.

We are migrating from METL and discovering that those variables are throwing errors in Maia - are there Maia alternatives or no dice?

Cheers,  
Steve

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**Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://matillioncommunity.discourse.group/t/does-maia-have-the-concept-of-reserved-words-for-job-name-project-name-like-metl-did/3515/2 "2026-05-21T00:53:44Z")

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METL called them “Automatic Variables”, here is the documentation in METL:

> **[Matillion Docs](https://docs.matillion.com/metl/docs/2943424/)**

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**Post date:** [May 21, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://matillioncommunity.discourse.group/t/does-maia-have-the-concept-of-reserved-words-for-job-name-project-name-like-metl-did/3515/3 "2026-05-21T00:55:35Z")

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Oooh! I found it: [System variables - Maia Documentation](https://docs.maia.ai/docs/guides/system-variables#list-of-system-variables)

Maia calls them “system variables” and they are totally different structure (and a lot more of them!)

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**Post date:** [May 23, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://matillioncommunity.discourse.group/t/does-maia-have-the-concept-of-reserved-words-for-job-name-project-name-like-metl-did/3515/4 "2026-05-23T00:55:39Z")

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Closed on May 23, 2026, 12:55am UTC

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