Robert, DIRMAINT does come with a "wakeup" table of commands that includes a BACKUP command to backup your online directory into a source file. It runs daily and you always have a current backup on DIRMAINT 1DB. Look at DIRMAINT DATADVH
Sergio, I've been using DIRMAINT since coming back to VM in 1999 and it has not been a problem using it. I do not miss editing the entire directory at all. One other "pro" is that it is an added tool to beat back the auditors when they come around asking silly questions like "how do you manage password changes"? DIRMAINT can tell you who hasn't changed their passwords and you can either send them gentle reminders or have DIRMAINT give them a new password. Ron On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:13 AM, RPN01 <nix.rob...@mayo.edu> wrote: > The benefits are far greater than the loss of directly editing your > directory. Have you ever edited your directory and put it online, only to > find out later that you’d managed to overlay a minidisk or important piece > of CP’s disk? It shouldn’t happen again if you correctly implement Dirmaint. > And you won’t have to hunt for space to add a user. You can just say “I need > a 200 cyl minidisk, and Dirmaint will find a place to put it. Have two > systems? Dirmaint can actually manage one common CP directory between the > two. There really isn’t a reason to hand-manage a CP directory that > outweighs using Dirmaint or some other directory management tool. The tool > is always a better choice. > > Now, a caveat. On some regular basis, use the command “Dirmaint user > withpass”, and save a copy of the old-style complete directory on maint’s, > or your 191 disk, just for emergency’s sake. Don’t get caught without a > fairly current source directory that you could put online yourself in an > emergency situation if something should happen and Dirmaint couldn’t run. I > don’t know what that situation might be, but I like the warm, fuzzy feeling > of being able to see that “user withpass” file on my 191 disk. > > -- > Robert P. Nix Mayo Foundation .~. > RO-OC-1-18 200 First Street SW /V\ > 507-284-0844 Rochester, MN 55905 /( )\ > ----- ^^-^^ > "In theory, theory and practice are the same, but > in practice, theory and practice are different." > > > > On 10/1/10 8:54 AM, "Sergio Lima" <sergiovm...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hello List, > > We need implement the DIRMAINT product here, but we have some doubts. > > Have a STEP there, when need migrate our VMUSERS DIRECT A to DIRMAINT > minidisk. > > After do this, We never more can edit our VMUSERS DIRECT, as we do today? > > We are very concerned about this implementation, which we should take > necessary precautions? > > We already have implemented this, in a test environment, apapparently had no > problems, but we need to make sure. > > Could someone give their opinion? > > Thanks very much > > Sergio Lima Costa > Sao Paulo - Brazil > > > >
