Thanks for the responses.  I was looking for a  miracle.  This is in the context of a migration where I was hoping DNS cname changes would be doing the heavy...

Ok thanks John.  I will keep trying!

For the example I am discussing:

Clustered name resource: reporting
Instance name: RO
Port 1436.

These work:
reporting\ro
reporting,1436

My goal is to use "reporting" only in...

Thanks Jeffery, its a 2 node FCI. Sql browser enabled and running on both nodes. Failover seamless, for the default and 4 named instances installed. Default instance accessible without port,...