RE: Help with z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of "Fish" (David B. Trout)
> Sent: 21 November 2010 13:15
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [H390-VM] Help with z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition
> 
> 
> Thanks for the non-help, Dave.  :)

That’s OK, I wondered what your skill level was...

> 
> (Relax! It's not your fault!)
> 
> I downloaded all the manuals I thought I'd need, including:
> 
> SC24-6135-03 zVM V5R3.0 Directory Maintenance Facility 
> Tailoring and Administration Guide SC24-6133-04 zVM V5R3.0 
> Directory Maintenance Facility Commands Reference 
> GC24-6134-03 zVM V5R3.0 Directory Maintenance Facility Messages
> 
> But I'm not about to wade through 250+ pages of DIRMAINT 
> commands just to figure out how to add a fricking user.
> 

I think all you need is the "ADD" command to add a user...

> In the old days all you'd do is edit the USER DIRECT and 
> issue the DIRECT command and voila! Done!
> 

Ah that was a long time ago, its been DIRECTXA for as long as I remember...

> This DIRMAINT stuff is new to me and I'm completely lost!
> 
> I need some sort of "Newbie's Tutorial" or something. An 
> example session that walks me through step by step how to do it.
> 
> Is there such a thing? I googled but couldn't find anything.
> 

Not that I know of. Basically you issue "DIRM" commands which get sent to
the DIRMAINT VM which does your bidding. 

> This is so frustrating! I know what I need to do!
> 
> But this "New and Improved!" DIRMAINT way of doing things, 
> while certainly new, is most definitely NOT improved. (*)

Its much improved as it manages the free space for you, so you can just tell
it to allocate a 20 cyl minidisk and it knows where the free space is. You
want to increase the size of a mini disk, fine tell it and it will get the
datamover VM to move the data and then swap the entries in the directory.
Try managing 250 users without it and you soon know how "improved" it is.

> 
> HELP!  :))

Trouble is its that long since I used it I have forgotton what to do :-(
Let me see if I can figure out what you need to do. The old brain cells
don't work too well.

> 
> -- 
> "Fish" (David B. Trout) 
>  [email protected]
> 
> (*) Or at least it isn't to ME anyway! I prefer the much 
> simpler albeit somewhat riskier old fashioned method.
>