Re: Can a DDMF point to localhost?

[CRPence <CRPbottle@xxxxxxxxx>]

  The DDMFile is merely an "implementation object" for the SQL 
ALIAS.  Although the device file appears by DSPDDMF or DSPFD to 
implement a DDMF pointing to a remote file at the 
RMTLOCNAME(*LOCAL), note that there is support neither for a member 
name which the ALIAS accomplishes nor for a Remote Location Name of 
*LOCAL which appears.  And although the DDM File implementing the 
ALIAS could be changed using CHGDDMF to make the device file 
generally functional to access a file by the name listed in the 
NonStandard file name [or even a completely different file], I would 
not recommend it even though that has no effect on the file.mbr 
accessed when referencing the ALIAS.  I am unsure why CHGDDMF was 
not prevented from changing a DDMF which exists only to implement an 
SQL ALIAS.

Regards, Chuck

Jose Antonio Salazar Montenegro wrote:
> The DDM Server is up and working fine except for local access,
> be it by *SNA or *IP.
>
> The SQL ALIAS worked nicely, it made the connection by SNA.
> But I'd like to leave it all on a simple CL and plain CRTDDMF
> commands, but it's fine to have the ALIAS option as a last
> resort.
>
> Mark S. Waterbury wrote:
>
> Yes, it is possible.  For example, I did this:
>
>   CRTDDMF FILE(QTEMP/MYDDMF) RMTFILE(MYLIB/MYFILE) 
>           RMTLOCNAME('127.0.0.1' *IP)
>
> and this worked fine on my system.
>
> Also, if you create an SQL ALIAS, it creates a DDMF "under the
> covers".