Caché System Administration Guide - InterSystems Documentation

Configuring Namespaces5. Click Finish to add your database to the configuration file.You are now ready to further configure and manipulate your new database.Note:To protect you from accidentally corrupting a database, you cannot open or write toan operating system file called cache.dat or cache.ext, even if it is not a mounteddatabase.7.3 Configuring NamespacesA namespace is a collection of data and programs in a virtual work space. In a namespace,you can define the globals that various groups or people need. For example, if your accountingdepartment needs to use certain globals that exist on different systems or in different directories,you can set up a single namespace that references all the accounting globals and databaseson your network.The following procedures for configuring namespaces are described for the Windows platformusing the Caché Configuration Manager. When you are finished configuring your namespaces,click OK to save your changes and exit the Configuration Manager.• Create a Namespace• Change a Namespace NameCaché System Administration Guide 27