To relieve your curiosity, Maint still had the 123, but DIRMAINT could no t get it RW to do updates.
I have gone the route suggested by Kris/Mike. Updated the EXTENT CONTROL to put END back in on my REGIONS (540RES not part of that). Took the USER BACKUP and changed all the MDISKs back to END. Shutdown most of the users. Got rid of USER DIRECT on 1DF. Used DIRECTXA USER BACKUP and reipled the system to cause DIRMAINT to rebuild. Not quite out of the woods yet, but getting there I hope.
