Thanks everyone.
I will set up a user to own the tools as suggested and use VMLINK. I am the
only z/VM user except for a couple of people in the company who used VM many
years ago and have an id for nostalgic reasons (and who could be useful if I am
not around) so I will just update the PROFILE EXECs rather than tinker with
SYSPROF EXEC. SFS looks attractive but I have no knowledge of it so I will
stick with minidisks for now. Ditto for nicknames.
Keith
On Monday, 12 January 2015, 15:58, Rick Troth <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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