Renaming Data Sources


Overview

Tasks

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Tivoli Service Desk

Overview

Data source name restrictions

The following restrictions apply to your choice of data source names:
  • Data source names must be unique.
  • Data source names cannot start with a number. In other words, "7ADV" is illegal, but "ADV7" is acceptable.
  • Although not strictly prohibited by TDT, avoid spaces in a data source name. Use underscores ("_") instead.
  • We also recommend that you specify the data source name in all uppercase.

Other than the above restrictions, the choice for the source name is up to you. TDT does not require, nor does it recognize, any predefined names. However, applications written with TDT may expect (or at least default to) certain source names. For example, early versions of Tivoli Service Desk expected a source name of ADVISOR. The name of the data source is stored as the name of a section in the sai_sql.cfg file. It appears in square brackets, for example as [ADVISOR].

Source Entry dialog box

Use the Source Entry dialog box to rename a data source when copying an existing data source or renaming an existing data source. Data source names must conform to the restrictions explained in Data Source Name Restrictions.

To access the Source Entry dialog box, do one of the following::


Tasks

Renaming a data source

When you rename a data source, the data source definition remains the same.

To rename a data source: