Greetings.

I replied privately to Dennis earlier...but Tim Ericson's answer is a bit
incomplete.

To summarize:

1.  Dennis has an existing production dictionary - a permanent file.
2.  When using a process (in this case the Cognos dictionary compiler), he
    doesn't want to overwrite the production dictionary, Cognos builds the file
    in the temporary domain, with the same name as the production dictionary.
3.  Problem:  how to rename the temporary file when a permanent one already
    exists?

Tim's suggestion:

:RENAME SCHEMA,SCHEMAX,TEMP
:SAVE SCHEMAX

Unfortunately, given the parameters that Dennis has, this doesn't work (the
RENAME renames the permanent file...into the temporary domain).  What does work
is:

:FILE SCHEMA;TEMP
:RENAME *SCHEMA,NEWNAME
:SAVE NEWNAME

Some of the other suggested alternatives work, i.e. changing the dictionary
source or file-equating the formal designator for the dictionary Cognos is
attempting to build.

Kelly Sevilla