Excellent idea.. I just recently ran through the directory at a customer site, coming up with an explanation for the security folks of what the purpose of each IBM supplied user was. I took the same approach, linking to their 191, or searching through manuals to figure it out.
Having a single line comment with a description would be a simple way to help keep things documented. Scott On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Kris Buelens <kris.buel...@gmail.com>wrote: > Has it been suggested already that the sample CP directory would > contain, for each userid, a one sentence description? > > I find that the number of predefined users (many SVM'"s) is growing > more quickly than I can remember them > (and I mostly forget the userids I don't use) > Some users are selfexplanatory, others are not. Examples > 5684042J > SYSADMIN > CBDIODSP > The first one is obviously a product install user, but I can't > remember these product numbers (5VMTCP40 is something userfriendly). > To find out what they are used for, most of the time I link to their > 191 to get a clue. (happily for me I've got an XEDIT prefix command to > LINK,ACCESS, FILELIST and DETACH the MDISK wheer I enter the commend) > > > I'd include the product ID in the short description. Yielding: > USER 5684052J .... > * 5684042J ICKDSF installation userid > ...... > USER SYSADMIN > * 5VMRAC40 RACF ????? > ..... > USER CBDIODSP > * 5VMHCD40 HCD ??? > ..... > > > -- > Kris Buelens, > IBM Belgium, VM customer support >
