Distributed Name Service (DNS) Management Programming Manual

ALTER ALIAS Command
Using DNS in Programs: The DNS Commands
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Tokens in Command Buffer
ZDNS-MAP-ALTER-ALIAS
is a structured token that describes the alias being altered. This token is required.
It has the token number ZDNS-TNM-ALTER-ALIAS and the definition ZDNS-
DDL-ALTER-ALIAS. It contains the following fields:
ZNAME
contains the name of the alias to be altered. Possible errors referring to this
field are:
ZDNS-ERR-INV-NAME
ZDNS-ERR-NOTFOUND
ZDNS-ERR-REQD-FIELD
ZDEFNODE
If the alias to be altered is defined on a system other than the local system,
the system name must be specified in this field. If this field is left null, the
name manager assumes the name is defined on its own system.
If the alias being altered is defined on a remote system, it must have been
previously copied using ZDNS-CMD-COPY. Possible errors referring to
this field are:
ZDNS-ERR-INV-NAME
ZDNS-ERR-REMOTENAME
ZREFTYPE
If the referent of the alias is to be changed, the type of the new referent
must be specified in this field. Allowed values are ZDNS-OBJ-SSMGR
and ZDNS-OBJ-SSOBJ. If the referent is not to be changed, this field
should be left null. A possible error referring to this field is:
ZDNS-ERR-ILL-OBJ
ZSSOBJ
If ZREFTYPE = ZDNS-OBJ-SSOBJ, this field must contain the name of the
subsystem object the alias refers to; otherwise, this field must be left null.
Possible errors referring to this field are:
ZDNS-ERR-INV-NAME
ZDNS-ERR-NOTFOUND
ZDNS-ERR-REQD-FIELD