Managing CA VM:Secure › Enlarging the CP Object Directory (Keeping It on the Same DASD Volume) › Step 3: Update the Placeholder Minidisk in This Space, If Necessary

Step 3: Update the Placeholder Minidisk in This Space, If Necessary

If your site uses a minidisk as a placeholder for the CP areas such as the CP DRCT area, you need to update this user ID’s MDISK statement to represent the new location of the CP DRCT area. The benefit of this minidisk is that, when you use the IBM DIRMAP utility against the USER DIRECT file, the location of the CP DRCT area shows up in the output. In addition, if you change to another directory management product, this area will continue to be protected even though the area is no longer protected by an entry in the CA VM:Secure DASD CONFIG file. (You will update this entry in the DASD CONFIG file in a later step.)

If you have a placeholder minidisk that represents the current CP object directory, you can update that minidisk now to reflect the new CP DRCT area. For example, if $DIRECT$ 123 is a placeholder for the old CP object directory and the new directory will be located on volume ESA240, a 3390 device, from cylinder 1 to cylinder 50, use the VMSECURE EDIT $DIRECT$ command to change the location of $DIRECT$’s 123 minidisk to the following:

MDISK 123 3390 1 50 ESA240 RR