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Renaming a Product User ID

You may want to have two versions of a product installed on your system simultaneously. Here is an example. Suppose you are running Release 1.3 of product CA VM:Alpha (with a user ID of ALPHA) and want to install Release 2.0 (also with a user ID of ALPHA). It could simplify your effort if you could rename Release 1.3 user ID to ALPHAOLD and then install Release 2.0. Then, because each release has a unique user ID, you could run both versions of VM:Alpha.

The following instructions explain how to rename a product service virtual machine user ID:

  1. Bring down the product service virtual machine.
  2. Use your Directory Manager product or your own installation specific procedures to rename the deployed user ID to the new name. Also update any other user ID entries which LINK to minidisks owned by this user to LINK using the new user name. Products with worker virtual machines may have such LINK statements.
  3. Use the VMSERVER command to bring up a NAMES panel for the entry for the product server you are renaming.
  4. On the panel, modify all occurrences of the name of the server by substituting the new name. Modify the value of the NICK tag, and every other use of the name in every other tag value. Use PF6 to update the NAMES file.
  5. On the PUBLIC disk, usually the VMANAGER 193 minidisk, rename the product MODULE filename from the old user ID to the new one. In our example the file would change from ALPHA MODULE to ALPHAOLD MODULE.
  6. Copy any SFS directories associated with the old user ID to the new user ID. Now that you have renamed the existing user ID, you may install the new release. In our example, because you renamed the user ID for product CA VM:Alpha to ALPHAOLD you can install the new release of CA VM:Alpha to user ID ALPHA.