Ron,
Thank you for the references and your advice. I will read the documentation 
carefully and consider whether the reward is worth the possible complications. 
Maybe not.

Best wishes,
Keith Arbogast
Indiana University

On Mar 4, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Ron Delaware wrote:

> Keith, 
> 
> you can find the procedure for changing the host name for you linux TSM 
> Servers here: 
> 
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21448218 
> 
> Changing names is not a task to be taken lightly. Changes that are made can 
> affect future upgrades, see this link for more info: 
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21573421
> 
>  
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> If you haven’t learned something new today, then you’ve wasted your day
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> 
> From:        Keith Arbogast <warbogas AT IU DOT EDU> 
> To:        ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu, 
> Date:        03/04/2014 02:16 PM 
> Subject:        [ADSM-L] How to change db2 instance name? 
> Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu> 
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> 
> 
> We install / and /boot on a LUN on the SAN, and boot from there. We can copy 
> a boot LUN with the OS installed on it, and zone the copy to new hardware to 
> create another server.
> 
> Can we do that with a boot LUN that has the TSM server installed on it too, 
> then change the DB2 instance name of the clone --to create a new TSM server?  
> If that is a straight forward process it might save us time in a 
> deadline-driven hardware upgrade.
> 
> If this is well documented somewhere, kindly refer me to that. 
> 
> With my thanks,
> Keith Arbogast
> Indiana University
>