RE: Help with z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition

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> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of "Fish" (David B. Trout)
> Sent: 21 November 2010 20:51
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [H390-VM] Help with z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition
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> J. D. Cassidy wrote:
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> > To manage a handful of users in z/VM with Dirmaint
> > is utter Bollox.
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> > "In the old days all you'd do is edit the USER DIRECT
> > and issue the DIRECT command.. " is the way to go.
> > 
> > Forget about Dirmaint - bloated and in your case unnecessary.

Sadly you can't "forget" it on the eval. From what I remember DIRMAINT
doesn't keep a copy of the "user direct" file as a file. It splits it up by
user and tries wherever possible to issue directory change instructions to
update it, rather than loading the whole directory. 

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> I feel pretty much the same way John, but I'm going to TRY 
> doing it the "recommended" way first. (Some others sent some 
> helpful information that I think may work out okay. I'll let 
> you all know when I try it.)
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> But if I have any trouble then yeah, I'll fall back to doing 
> it the old fashioned way. :)

As I said you need to get DIRMAINT to build you a source directory first..

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> Thanks.
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