ADD ALIAS

ADD ALIAS

Use the ADD ALIAS command to add an alias pro￿le to the AliasDB ￿le on the clien t. The ￿rst time you use this command to add an alias pro￿le, the AliasDB ￿le is created. T o display the contents of one or more alias use the SHO W ALIAS command.

ADD ALIAS can be abbreviated to AA.

To issue this command, y ou must log on as MANA GER.SYS or have SM capability.

NETUtil Syntax

netutil=> ADD ALIAS Alias Name: AliasName

Database Server Type: DBServerType

DBEnvironment Name on Server: DBEnvironmentName

Server Node Name: ServerNodeName

Machine Type:

MachineType

Datacomm Type:

DatacommType

Parameters

 

AliasName

is the alias name of the DBEn vironment that resides on the serv er, to

 

be used by an application of the clien t. This name must be unique

 

on the client. The alias name does not need to be the same as the

 

DBEnvironment name. It can consist of ASCII 7-bit c haracters

 

as well as some 8-bit and 16-bit c haracter sets (either ASCII or

 

non-ASCII). The alias name can con tain up to 128 characters, it is not

 

case-sensitive, and is stored and displa yed exactly as it w as entered.

 

The ￿rst character of this ￿eld cannot be an asterisk (*).

DBServerType

is ALLBASE/SQL, the database managemen t system serv er type

 

on the server. (HP SQL is still supported as a database serv er

 

type. However, if you enter HP SQL, NETUtil displa ys it as

 

ALLBASE/SQL.) The serv er type name is not case-sensitiv e and is

 

stored and displa yed in uppercase characters.

DBEnvironmentName is the fully quali￿ed ￿lename of the DBEn vironment on the MPE/iX server or the absolute pathname of the DBEn vironment on the HP-UX server. This name follo ws the ￿le naming con ventions of the operating system in which the DBEnvironment resides.

The MPE/iX DBEnvironment name cannot exceed 26 c haracters in length and is not case-sensitiv e.

The HP-UX DBEnvironment name cannot exceed 128 c haracters in length and is case-sensitiv e.

The DBEnvironment name is stored and displa yed exactly as it w as entered.

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