Re: Help with z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition

DIRMAINT keeps a monolithic backup of the source directory. I think it is on 1DB?

/Tom Kern

On 11/21/2010 16:25, Dave wrote:
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com>
>  > [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf Of "Fish"
> (David B. Trout)
>  > Sent: 21 November 2010 20:51
>  > To: [email protected] <mailto:H390-VM%40yahoogroups.com>
>  > Subject: RE: [H390-VM] Help with z/VM 5.3 Evaluation Edition
>  >
>  >
>  > J. D. Cassidy wrote:
>  >
>  > > To manage a handful of users in z/VM with Dirmaint
>  > > is utter Bollox.
>  > >
>  > > "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.
>
>  >
>  > 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.)
>  >
>  > 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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>  > "Fish" (David B. Trout)
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