IBM Directory Maintenance Version 1 Release 5.0 addresses your concerns
about serviceability, installability, and usability. Enhancements
include:
VMSES/E service and install support
Full command level support for all directory statements
Elimination of capacity constraints
Elimination of password expiration notices
Exits that provide for distributed administration
Alternate directory support
Improved installability and serviceability by using VMSES/E
Provides ease of installability, ease of applying service, and
eliminates the need to maintain two unique skills for installation and
service of the VM directory and the VM base operating system; now they
are both identical.
Full command level support for all directory statements
By providing full level support for all control statements (to both
optional as well as required statements), the integrity of the
directory will be maintained. Improved compliance with security
requirements is provided by enhanced auditable command level support of
the directory statements; by eliminating the use of DIRMAINT GET,
RECEIVE, XEDIT, DIRMAINT REPLACE processing, for which the audit only
shows that the GET/REPLACE has been made but not what changes have been
made.
Elimination of capacity constraints
The DirMaint Version 1 Release 5.0 service machines can run in XA
or XC mode, in addition to 370 mode. This makes storage above the
16M line available.
DirMaint Version 1 Release 5.0 can handle more DASD allocation
groups, more volumes per group, and more regions per volume than
the current release.
DirMaint Version 1 Release 5.0 can handle significantly larger
user directory entries than the current release and can handle a
much larger total directory size.
Elimination of password expiration notices
Improved notification techniques allow the directory administrator the
option of eliminating printed notices or online notices, or both.
Exits that provide for distributed administration
Significantly more exits have been added to DirMaint Version 1 Release
5.0, along with enhancing those in the current release, allowing for
the ability to automate more applications and reducing the time
required for maintenance.
Alternate directory support
The impact of major system problems is minimized by allowing the
maintenance of a second source directory backup and a second
transaction log file to enable recovery of the source directory from
alternate devices in the event of hardware or I/O errors on the primary
DirMaint data volumes.
For additional information refer to IBM Announcement Letter 295-243
dated June 12, 1995.
If you'd like to contact DirMaint development and support, you can
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