Also, would someone please give the pro's and con's of using DIRMAINT as opposed to just XEDIT directly. As long as your check DISKMAP for OVER and specify the EDIT option for DIRECTXA, does DIRMAINT really buy you that much more, other than updating entries individually?
Unquestionably, yes. Cons: DIRMAINT costs money. The user interface is “quaint”. Quote from my lab manager: “What a screaming bloody nightmare. Whatever they’re giving the guy who was forced to implement this… it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment for spiders, cobras, and other noxious vermin, let alone human beings.” Pros: DIRMAINT doesn’t make math mistakes on cylinder offsets DIRMAINT makes coping with RACF less of a PITA. RACF is still a PITA, but less so. DIRMAINT allows you to delegate managing userids to other people without giving them the total keys to the entire system. DIRMAINT maintains a audit trail as to who changed what when and from where. DIRMAINT allows users to manage their own password changes. DIRMAINT lets you programmatically script system changes via the SMAPI tools. Etc, etc, etc. I vastly prefer VM:Secure, but DIRM is a hard act to follow in terms of price, and having it preinstalled makes it really easy to have a working directory manager up and running ASAP after install. If it saves you one stupid mistake, it’s totally worth the small amount of money it costs to have a directory manager.
