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Product Tags in VMSERVER NAMES File

This section lists the NAMES file tags that CA VM:Director uses.

During deployment, you create a NAMES entry with default file tag values by using the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager VMDEFINE command. You can alter these defaults during the deployment, when the screen created by VMDEFINE appears. After the deployment, you can modify the entries in the NAMEs file using the VMSERVER command from the VMANAGER user ID.

Note: For more information about the VMSERVER command, see the CA Mainframe VM Product Manager Reference Guide. For more information about processing NAMES, see the Usage Notes in the help panel brought up by the HELP NAMES command.

TAG Name	Definition of the Tag value

Nick		Name of a CA VM:Director product Server Virtual Machine (SVM)
PPFname		The Product Parameter File (PPF) and base component name associated with this product server. This tag is modified when upgrading to a newer product release.
Environment		‘primary’ or ‘alternate’ or ‘previous’ This tag is modified to select between two sets of deployed product disks. The selected set becomes active the next time the product is started. The deploy tag contains the tag names of disks defined as primary disks. The same tag names are prefixed by the string “alt” to form the names of the tags defining the alternate set of product disks. The same tag names are prefixed by the string "prev" to form the names of the tags defining the previous set of product disks.
Startcmd		Command to start the product server MODULE
Prodname		Product identifier is a single token unique to each product. It must not be modified.
Deploy		List of tag names. Each tag defines a product minidisk, which will be populated by the VMDEPLOY command. You must not modify this tag value.
Runtime		Primary minidisk containing the code executed in the product server virtual machine.
Admin	Primary minidisk containing the code used by product administration functions and executed by a product administrator user ID.
Public		Primary minidisk containing the code executed by the general user from the user’s own user ID.
Help		Minidisk or SFS directory containing the product HELP files
Altruntime		Alternate version of the runtime disk. It usually contains files from a new release of the product or files with fixes applied.
Altadmin	Alternate version of the admin disk. It usually contains files from a new release of the product or files with fixes applied.
Altpublic		Alternate version of the public disk. It usually contains files from a new release of the product or files with fixes applied.
Prevruntime		Previous version of the runtime disk. It usually contains files from a previous release of the product or versions of files before fixes were applied.
Prevadmin	Previous version of the admin disk. It usually contains files from a previous release of the product or versions of files before fixes were applied.
Prevpublic		Previous version of the public disk. It usually contains files from a previous release of the product or versions of files before fixes were applied.
Local		A work disk accessed as file mode A
Drct	Directory database disk
Bkup	Backup disk for directory database
Hold	Hold minidisk for users on HOLD
Audt	Auditing minidisk
Common	Minidisk for common code used by the product servant facility.
IPLDISK	Minidisk used by the VMXIPL utility.
Log	Minidisk used to synchronize changes between Master and Agent servers in an SSI environment. This minidisk is required when running in an SSI complex.
Sysadmin	Defines the user ID of a product system administrator.
Alocal	A work disk for a system administrator user ID