| You CAN do this restructuring.
To refine your question a bit, you are asking if you can change the
names (the Registered Names) of the entitiy instances.
You can do this with the RENAME directive.
So, for instance, if you had the NODE4 .VAX1 and you wanted to move
it to the .LKG child directory, you would
MCC> RENAME NODE4 .VAX1 REGISTERED NAME = .LKG.VAX1
There are a couple of side effects that you need to be aware of and
also some problems you could encounter.
- A positive side effect is that the RENAME will find all the domains
that the entity is a member of and update that info too
- A negative side effect is that it will NOT update MAP FILES
I suggest that this work be done in the FCL with NO Iconic Map
up. If you have a workstation I would suggest that you edit the
map file in one window while you do the RENAMEs in another. If you
have the entities in more than one domain then you need to edit all
the appropriate map files.
- Note that if you leave out the "REGISTERED" and only include NAME
you are attempting to change the DECnet Phase IV name on the local
node. This may not succeed.
- If the new name you choose is already the name of something, like the
child directory for example, success will be reported (a bug) even
though DECmcc cannot, and does not perform the rename.
As to benifits, getting things out of the root will, as you add more
entities to the system, and perhaps use the namespace for other things,
keep performance of the namespance from degrading.
I hope this helps.
s/rob
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