[Info-vax] cluster-wide logical-name tables

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s9dr26$4c4$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
<news at cct-net.co.uk> writes: 

> On 04/06/2021 19:01, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > In article <s9dpdv$nga$1 at dont-email.me>, Chris Townley
> > <news at cct-net.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> >> On 04/06/2021 18:50, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> >>> On 8.4, logical names SHOW as, e.g.
> >>>
> >>>      "WRK" [super,clusterwide]
> >>>
> >>> which presumably indicates that the corresponding table is cluster-wide.
> >>> That is on 8.4.
> >>>
> >>> On 7.3-2, the ",clusterwide" is missing, though the same table is being
> >>> SHOWn.
> >>>
> >>> Any way to find out on older versions of VMS whether a table is
> >>> cluster-wide?
> >>>
> >> Find the table it is defined in, then look at that table?
> > 
> > Yes, that's the question: how, exactly, to look at the table to
> > determine if it is cluster-wide.
> > 
> You could try show logi/cluster and see if it turns up there!

Works on 8.4, but not 7.3-2.

> I remember messing around with cluster logicals a while back on IA646, 
> but don't have access to a cluster any more

An interesting concept is a table with restricted access with parent 
table LNM$SYSCLUSTER.