All are nice tools, but they don't really address the administrative complexity of SFS much. Adding a disk to a storage pool is the place where most newbies screw up and end up losing the pool. Understanding the difference between control and data pools is also a tough area. And of course, it's always a struggle to explain why an extra-cost product is necessary for enabling basic function.
Now that RACF registration is finally integrated into DIRMAINT, it'd be a really logical extension to provide exits to do filepool registration and some basic GRANTs. More requirements...sigh. ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:46 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Link Multiple Write safely There are *some* SFS tools/products, some are free, some are not. - CA sells VM:Backup, which makes backups and restores pretty much a no-brainer. - IBM's new IBM Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM, should do much the same. - Safe Software sells SafeSFS, which reduces the GRANT complexity to the absolute minimum that even an inexperience user can understand - and speeds backups/restores because there are so many less authorizations required. - Tools on the IBM VM Download page. (SFSULIST is one of my favorites).
