The Virtualization Cookbook for IBM z/VM 6.3, RHEL 6.4, and SLES 11 SP3

DirMaint, SMAPI, and RACF

“Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.”

— Albert Einstein

This chapter describes how to enable and configure DirMaint, a directory maintenance product; the z/VM Systems Management APIs (SMAPI); and RACF, a z/VM External Security Manager (ESM).

If you turn on DirMaint, you can no longer edit the USER DIRECT file and use the DIRECTXA command, rather, the DirMaint interface is used.

If you want to turn on SMAPI, which is required by some systems management solutions, you must also ...