On Friday, 04/10/2009 at 09:34 EDT, "Huegel, Thomas" <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> I found it, although 'it' is not as complete as I had remembered.
> What I am referring to is some nice 'how to' doc for DIRMAINT.
> Appendix 'F' was added to 5.3 admin guide this is a procedure for making 
mass 
> changes to the directory and putting it back online.
> I wish there were more easy to find procedures like this one.

Send in your Readers' Comment Forms.  That's how you can communicate 
directly with the people who write the books.  As Developers, our job is 
to create information and give it to the book writers.  The writers work 
hard to make the information understandable *and retrievable*.

Sometimes we, individually or together, miss the mark and we depend on you 
to tell us when something isn't right.

Some of our books are 30 years old.  They have accreted a lot of material 
over the years and information that was once easy to find (and remains so 
for those who know where to look), has been covered over by layer of 
e-debris(tm).  So many books, so little time.....

But just to show that we are pro-active, too, the RACF Security 
Administrator's Guide is currently undergoing a major rewrite to take 
information that was always "on the side" and integrate it into the 
mainstream parts of the book so that you will find what you need to know 
in one pass.  Yes, experienced admins will find that we moved their cheese 
a bit, but it will make people who are new to RACF better able to 
comprehend what's going on.  And maybe *I'll* have better luck finding 
what *I* want to know.  You would think that as many years as I've been 
dealing with RACF I would have it all memorized.  Ha!  I have gotten tired 
of saying "But I thought that information was right *here*.  It was 
before.  Wasn't it?  No?  Oh."  :-) 

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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