Our history with z/VM could best be defined as 'Hobbyist' level to test the concept of multiple virtual Linux servers running on an IFL. As it not being a formally funded project, licensed $$$ software features like DIRMAINT would NOT be purchased or licensed.
Over a dozen years ago I set this up using the going information at the time (z/VM 6.2, SLES 11.3, etc) and the working notes from Training Courses offered by IBM at the time. I have refreshed once using the SHARE lab notes presented often at share. The bad news is that we just changed office buildings and some long needed cleanup was performed and those cookbook recipes are lost to me forever. This leaves me adrift missing my lost knowledge on how to do things like. Get new Volumes attached. Get new Users defined Get the disks and dasd formatted. I know about USER DIRECT and SYSTEM CONFIG but I do not even know what User/Minidisk to look at to edit them. Or a safe way to perform DIRECTXA. The documentation tells you all about the files, but nothing other than DIRMAINT is mentioned for maintaining these files. The even sadder part is that my past User definitions exist on VM 6.3 disks, but I do not even have a roadmap to find them. Or a known way to migrate the old definitions to the new USER DIRECT file (even with manual XEDIT actions) Does anybody know about that old LAB with some useful cookbook recipes for the less fortunate, unfunded sysprogs? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
