Thank you all for the very useful information you provided me regarding Dirmaint. I'm still a little confused however. I guess I should have been more clear about my issue.
We are working on a Graphical management Console for z/VM so that an administrator can manage many day to day aspects of a z/VM instance from a graphical user interface and not have to use a command line. One of the tasks we wish to support is creation/deletion/modification of guests (i.e. their directory entries). We're torn between using the System Managment API's which will (as far as I understand from what I've seen on the list so far) allow us to support people who use Dirmaint as well as any other comercial z/VM directory manager without any special configuration needed?? Or to just do the directory modification by hand and NOT use SMAPI or a directory manager. The problem here is, if we decide to use SMAPI, won't we be cutting out support for people who do not use a directory manager?? And, if we DONT use SMAPI, do we also lose supporting people who DO use a directory manager? Which would you prefer if you were to use an application of this type? - Jason Herne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Clarkson Open Source Institute (http://cosi.clarkson.edu) COSI z/Vm Gui Program Team (http://www.clarkson.edu/projects/cosi/zTeam/zvmgui/)
