On 01/12/2015 09:20 AM, Robert J Brenneman wrote: > Mother's rule of z/VM Service number 1: Never change anything IBM sends you > Mother's rule of z/VM Service number 2: Never mix your stuff with IBM's stuff.
Amen! But see below for an exception. > In my shop we create a user in the directory named after our department and > set the PW to NOLOG. We give that new user a 191 disk ... This, plus what Sam said about using VMLINK. VMLINK is your friend. And when using VMLINK, you can selectively put some things on minidisk and other things into SFS (like Alan suggested) as needed, without having to be wholly in one mode or the other. As a help when servicing, I like to have an ID for each product (or tool or package). Lock it down, but allow logon-by for maint. For minidisk, there must be an ID (see prior paragraph) to own the storage. Rather than 191, I recommend v/r/m for three or four levels. This is fun, though less flexible than SFS. For example, my copy of Arty's IUCVTRAP is at "FIX19". I could have a user "IUCVTRAP" with disk 019 or F19. People would link that disk. (Using 'VMLINK' of course!) For each dotted level, you get 0 to 15 (last six in hex). SFS is simpler. For z/OS people on your team (or if it's just you), SFS might feel more natural, and that's a plus. Exception to Mother's rule #1: At a previous site, we had a small (read that as "easy to maintain") mod to SYSPROF EXEC to conditionally drive LCLPROF EXEC. The latter then did as little as possible, but arranged for our local stuff to be quickly on-hand without keeping everyone's private PROFILE EXEC in synch. Sounds like you have a small enough team (just you? or others too?) that you might be able to get by with just doing it in PROFILE EXEC. Repeating what Sam said: more art than science. You'll get a handle on it. -- Rick Troth Senior Software Developer Velocity Software Inc. Mountain View, CA 94041 Main: (877) 964-8867 Direct: (614) 594-9768 [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
