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Conference azur::mcc

Title:DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT.
Notice:Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187
Moderator:TAEC::BEROUD
Created:Mon Aug 21 1989
Last Modified:Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:6497
Total number of notes:27359

736.0. "Map File Location" by ZPOVC::ANDREWWAITES (Singapore - Asia's Wellington) Wed Feb 20 1991 00:50

    Hi,
    
    	I have tried pointing my domain maps to directories other than my
    default directory. It doesn't work. No matter what I do or say it
    always seems to want to find/put the map file in my login directory. IS
    this just me?
    
    thanks,
    ANdrew
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736.1TOOK::F_MESSINGERWed Feb 20 1991 10:3110
Andrew,

This worked for me:  

   deassign mcc_maps
   deassign /system/exec mcc_maps
   define mcc_maps [.temp]

Fred
736.2An explanation...NSSG::R_SPENCENets don't fail me now...Fri Feb 22 1991 16:5327
    The problem is that it is not clear to most folk what the distinction
    is between the the DIRECTORY Spec request the USER sees when creating
    a Domain and the MCC_MAPS Logical name that the System Installer sees
    when setting up the system.
    
    This is a case where the stovepipe documentation stratagy gets to be a
    problem. The Create DOMAIN docs do not explain that the HISTORIAN is
    the USER of the directory that is specified when you create the Domain
    so the user doesn' t have the needed info available to make the right
    desision when the domain is created.
    
    Personally, I am not looking forward to deleting all the domains
    Claudia and I have created in order to do them over again with the
    directory specification being correct for our installation.
    
    I fear that customers will also invest a LOT of time registering
    things, creating domains with things in them, really tuning up their
    map files to look great and ONLY Then will they look into recording
    information and discover that they may have made ALL the wrong choices
    about Domain Directories.
    
    So, to help the person who asked the original question, the location of
    your MAP files is directed by the definition of the MCC_MAPS logical
    name and the location of data that is stored by the RECORD Directive is
    directed by the directory specified at Domain Creation time.
    
    s/rob
736.3re: .0, .2BARREL::LEMMONThu Feb 28 1991 14:095
I would suggest only redefining the MCC_MAPS logical process wide.  If
you deassign the logical system wide and other users on the system
are using mcc, you might trip them up.  

/Jim