Hello all, I am one of the new bears trying to figure out how to use DIRMAINT to start defining some new users. As I have been searching the list archives for answers, I will start by saying I can identify with a comment made on this list back in February: "...go to a new z/VM shop that has z/VM just to support virtualized
Linux and watch as they attempt to get DIRMAINT and RACF installed and configured, and then begin to use it. It isn't pretty." Haven't started on the RACF yet --- I can hardly wait! (you may all want to come and see the show!) Some pressing questions I have: I finally found the DIRMAP utility to map the minidisks. What I am seeing on my 5.4 system is that the use of the word "END" for end-of-volume and the resulting LENGTH seemed to get translated in my conversion from USER DIRECT to be 3390-01 numbers, not 3390-09 as I am using, at least on the report it puts out. (This is true for th $PAGE$ entry for the PAGE volume , the $SPOOL$ entry, and MAINT 0122 entry for the SPOOL volume, and the MAINT and SYSDUMP1 0123 address entries for the RES volume). Is this just a glitch with the report or do I need to get rid of END entries and/or code something else somewhere that I am missing? I would like to create some "Real" USERIDs in the style required by Security. I am looking for a "best practice" here. It would seem to me best to place "non-system user-defined stuff" (to use a technical term) OFF of the RES volume so it easily carries from one release to the next. I have noticed that the redbooks, etc. that go through creating Linux guest s seem to put their 191 mini-disk on the volume defined for Linux use. It would seem to me that possibily these and definitely any admin CMS disks should go on what we would call on the z/OS side a "User volume" (maybe equal to a "Work volume" in z/VM terms?) What is best practice/most used for CMS disks? Also, can someone point me to (or give) a quick sample of what is needed if I use LOGONBY both in the logon TO and the BY definitions? Thanks to all of you. Also, I have no idea about carrying forward the DIRMAINT files at this point (let alone where they really are). How are these usually handled when changing releases?
