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Changing the Schema for Attributes in Use

If an attribute, object class, or name binding has never been used in the directory, then you can change or remove the schema definition by modifying the schema configuration file.

If an attribute has ever been used within the directory, you can only change its schema definition using these instructions.

You cannot delete all the entries that have the attributes to be changed, change schema, and load back the data. Instead, you must reload the datastore with DXloaddb to remove the old schema definitions from the datastore.

Important! A single schema file may be used by many different DSAs. If you change a schema file, check that it works correctly with all of the DSAs that use that file.

Remember to regenerate the schema.txt file for the DAP tools after changing the DSA schema configuration.