The benefits are far greater than the loss of directly editing your directory. Have you ever edited your directory and put it online, only to find out later that you¹d managed to overlay a minidisk or important piece of CP¹s disk? It shouldn¹t happen again if you correctly implement Dirmaint. And you won¹t have to hunt for space to add a user. You can just say ³I need a 200 cyl minidisk, and Dirmaint will find a place to put it. Have two systems? Dirmaint can actually manage one common CP directory between the two. There really isn¹t a reason to hand-manage a CP directory that outweighs using Dirmaint or some other directory management tool. The tool is always a better choice.
Now, a caveat. On some regular basis, use the command ³Dirmaint user withpass², and save a copy of the old-style complete directory on maint¹s, or your 191 disk, just for emergency¹s sake. Don¹t get caught without a fairly current source directory that you could put online yourself in an emergency situation if something should happen and Dirmaint couldn¹t run. I don¹t know what that situation might be, but I like the warm, fuzzy feeling of being able to see that ³user withpass² file on my 191 disk. -- Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW /V\ 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ ----- ^^-^^ "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice, theory and practice are different." On 10/1/10 8:54 AM, "Sergio Lima" <sergiovm...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello List, > > We need implement the DIRMAINT product here, but we have some doubts. > > Have a STEP there, when need migrate our VMUSERS DIRECT A to DIRMAINT > minidisk. > > After do this, We never more can edit our VMUSERS DIRECT, as we do today? > > We are very concerned about this implementation, which we should take > necessary precautions? > > We already have implemented this, in a test environment, apapparently had no > problems, but we need to make sure. > > Could someone give their opinion? > > Thanks very much > > Sergio Lima Costa > Sao Paulo - Brazil > > >
