What I have done for this situation is add a block comment to the directory entry before the MDISKs that describes what each MDISK is used
for. The comments are not directly associated with a MDISK, so you have to maintain the comments and MDISKs separately, (you kinda have to do tha t now). The advantage of using a comment block is that the descriptions ar e all in one place and you don't have to worry about DIRMAINT, (or any othe r directory manager), messing with them. Here is an example from one of ou r DB2/VM userids: *---------------------------------------------------------------------* * CMS Minidisk Layout * * 191 Work Disk and Profile Exec * * 193 DB2/VM Service Disk * * 195 DB2/VM Production Disk * * 200 Directory * * 201 Log Disk 1 * * 202-203 Pool 1 - System Catalogs * * 204-205 Pool 2 - Internals * * 206 Pool 3 - QMF and DBEDIT * * 207 Pool 4 - PUBLIC.EXPLAIN * * 208-211 Pool -5 - Non-Recoverable * * 212-219 Pool 6 - Recoverable * * 220-221 Pool -5 - Non-Recoverable * * 222 Pool 3 - QMF and DBEDIT * * 223-224 Pool -5 - Non-Recoverable * * 225-226 Pool 6 - Recoverable * * 227 Log Disk 2 * * 228 Pool 3 - QMF AND DBEDIT * * 229 Pool 6 - Recoverable * * 230 Pool 6 - Recoverable * * 231-234 Pool 2 - Internals * *---------------------------------------------------------------------* Of course, your comments for VSE MDISKs would be a lot different! :-)> Just put in what makes sense to you. Add a new comment line when you add a new disk, delete a line when delete a disk. -- Dale R. Smith "It's just a simple matter of programming." - Any boss who has never written a program On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:12:34 -0500, Horlick, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Kris, > >We are only concerned with our VSE guests which have hundreds of >minidisks. Normally we just do a DIRM GET, receive the directory entry >from our reader, XEDIT the file and add a minidisk or more (or delete >some) and insert comments here and there. We then do a DIRM REPLACE. > >All we want is to have DIRMAINT leave the entry that we XEDITed (and >made pretty) alone. No changes so that next time we get it we see it the >way we originally XEDITed it. > >Is that possible and making can you explain what DIRMAINT does on a >REPLACE that causes this shuffling? > >Thanks, > >Mike
