With cpint-1.1.6 its really easy to issue commands to z/vm, so thats not a problem, i would try nfs to update user direct.
Thanks On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Friday, 02/20/2004 at 06:54 CST, Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, is there any way to overwrite the user direct c from a linux > > guest? > > While you could change USER DIRECT by using NFS, you would have to use > rexec or set up a server that responds to HCP MSG (for example) to trigger > a CMS guest to run DIRECTXA. Needless to say, you can't run CMS binaries > (e.g. MODULEs) in Linux. > > If you have z/VM 4.4, with its System Management API (SMAPI), you could > write RPC programs in Linux (or any other platform) that will cause the > directory to be updated. It requires that you also license DirMaint or > some other directory management program that supports SMAPI. > > Alan Altmark > Sr. Software Engineer > IBM z/VM Development > -- Alejandro Leyva Rabinovich. Jefe de la Unidad Departamental de Soporte Ticnico (Administracisn de Mainframe). Direccisn General de Informatica. Secretarma de Finanzas. Gobierno del Distrito Federal.