# Alter Database name

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/alter-database-name/180121>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Adabas, Adabas-Basics-on-Linux-Unix-Windows, Adabas-on-Windows-UNIX, Adabas-on-Linux\
**Created:** [January 15, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/alter-database-name/180121 "2015-01-15T19:12:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Ivo\_Becker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce7236/32.png) [@Ivo\_Becker](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ivo_Becker)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/alter-database-name/180121/1 "2015-01-15T19:12:13Z")

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hi,  
I have Adabas 6.3 on Suse. is it possible to change ‘DataBase Name’ generate on installation?

regards

Ivo Becker

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2015, 8:08pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/alter-database-name/180121/2 "2015-01-15T20:08:40Z")

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You can either specify your custom DB name during dbgen or alter it with

```auto
ADADBM DB=<dbid>,rename=0, name=<your db name>
```

at any point in time.

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**Author:** ![Ivo\_Becker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ce7236/32.png) [@Ivo\_Becker](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Ivo_Becker)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/alter-database-name/180121/3 "2015-01-16T01:53:34Z")

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Simple as that. I need to read more books.  
Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/alter-database-name/180121/4 "2021-04-02T15:32:42Z")

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