>There is no facility available for renaming the databases. You can
     >not, for example, use IDCAMS ALTER to rename database, recover log,
     >or storage pool volumes. These volumes contain self-describing
     >records, and other records
     >in the database also point to these names. If you try to rename the
     >database volumes, your ADSM server will not start.

     >The only safe way to do this is to add new database volumes with the
     >desired data set name (use DEF DBV) then delete the old database
     >volumes (use DEL DBV). Of course you have to allocate and format the
     >new volumes, first.

     >Andy Raibeck

     Andy,

     What if I do the following:

       1. do a DUMPDB
       2. delete & define new dbvolumes
       3. do a LOADDB

     It's not painless, wouldn't this work?


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