Revision 587 – Abbreviate the Suggested Nicknames (SNICKs) in PHC

Provided a way to generate abbreviated “Suggested Nicknames” (which I call “Estimates” in code, and “SNICK” or “Suggested NICKnames” in PHC).

A customer found that our generated nicknames for missing nicknames was entirely sufficient for his needs, but the names are very long; to make it a bit easier, the VICT will now allow –briefestimate to set for brief suggested nicknames, and –nobriefestimate to counter the setting back to verbose estimates. This is useful when using the -w or –wwn option.

The similar option in PHC is either –briefestimate or –briefsnicks when using the generated phc-Nicknames.csv file.

Revision 558 – phc-Nicknames.csv Offers Generated Nickname Suggestions

In revision 558, I added a logic to PHC that exercises the “-w” from Revision 555: VMax Nickname Suggestion back to Suggested Nicknames framework so that for missing nicknames, a phc-Nicknames.csv file attempts ot provide suggested nicknames for the WWNs of missing nicknames that it understands.

In short, PHC now provides suggestions for missing nicknames, making it possible to have nicknames for hosts the customer may not even be aware are visible by the VW Platform.