On Friday, 10/01/2010 at 10:24 EDT, Ray Waters <ray.wat...@opensolutions.com> wrote: > We use all the ?DIRMAINT ? or ?DIRM? commands and also are able to use XEDIT > to make our major directory changes. I wrote an EXEC to ?DIRMAINT OFFLINE?, > ?DIRMAINT BACKUP?, DIRMAINT SHUTDOWN?, then ?COPY USER BACKUP B &DIRNAME DIRECT > A (OLDD ? , followed by ?XEDIT &DIRNAME DIRECT A?. > > Once my EXDIT changes are made and I ?FILE?, I ?COPY &DIRNAME DIRECT A USER > INPUT C (OLDD? to the DIRMAINT 1DF mdisk,? CP XAUTOLOG DIRMAINT?, ?EXEC > DIRMAINT ONLINE?. > > Anyway you get the idea. There are precautions and sleeps and performed by the > EXEC, but that is the general idea.
Any procedure that has you editing the monolithic directory and replacing it as a whole means you have no audit trail (except for "directory replaced") and the holodeck safeties are turned off. All major directory changes should be made with DIRM commands. If you're making a bunch of changes at the same time, use DIRM NODIRECT xxxx to suppress the DIRECTXA, and then when you're done use DIRM DIRECT to bring all the changes online at the same time. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott
