Renaming the backend MDB Name

Products

• CA Service Management - Service Desk Manager
• CA Service Desk Manager

Issue/Introduction

The customer wants to change the name of the mdb, e.g. to ca_mdb.

Are there any reasons not to do this?
Where could we have a negative effects?
Where everywhere must be adapted in a running system?
Are there known approaches for this?

 

Environment

Release : 17.3

Component : SDM - MDB/Database

Resolution

Renaming the backend database from the original "mdb" over to an alternate name, such as "ca_mdb" is not an activity which has undergone testing.  As such, we cannot certify on database name change being a supported task.