Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Operations Manual

ALTER DNSFILE

The DNSCOM Commands

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Examples

ALTER DNS-NAME-FILE, FILENAME $NEWVOL.NAMES.DRCTRY

ALTER DNS-NAME-FILE, FILENAME $DATA2.RDSDNS.DNSNAMES

ALTER DNS-TYPES-FILE AT \MEMPHIS.$DNS.RDSDNS.DNSCONFIG, &

FILENAME \MEMPHIS.$SPOOL.DNSRDS.DNSTYPES

Considerations

To issue this command, the DNS configuration must be in the stopped state.

The ALTER DNSFILE command does not change the name of the physical

database file; it simply updates the DNS configuration file.

To rename a DNS database file, you must:

1. Stop the DNS configuration (STOP DNS command).

2. Move the file to its new location using the FUP DUP command. Purge the old

file.

If the file is not being moved to a different disk volume, it may be renamed.

Refer to the Transaction Monitoring Facility (TMF) Management and Operations

Guide for more information about renaming audited Enscribe files.

3. Update the DNS configuration using the ALTER DNSFILE command.

4. Restart the DNS configuration using the START DNS command.

file name

is in network form, an error message is generated as in:

DNSCOM_ALTER DNS-NAME-FILE, FILENAME \NOREAST.X

ERROR 1013 - Network Form Not Allowed

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