Is it possible to put this module in CPAN and/or start a sourceforge
project - so that those of us so inclined can update/develop the module /
A module into something truly worthwhile to the ADSM community?
Anyone want to volunteer?
-j
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Gerhard Rentschler wrote:
> Hi,
> with some work I got Adsm.pm to work on Windows 2000. Things I had to do:
>
> - add path to dsmadmc to path env variable (unfortunately not done during
> installation)
>
> - add env variables DSM_DIR and DSM_CONFIG with correct values. Otherwise
> dsm.opt and dsmameng.txt will not be found. There is one special problem:
> dsmc will not work with dscameng.txt for dsmadmc and vice versa. But there
> is only one env variable for both.
>
> - comment out the check for the mode bits of .dsmrc. This check could be
> modified to use a Windows-specific function. But I haven't done it yet.
>
> - remove /dev/null in the open statement for dsmadmc. Windows doesn't have
> /dev/null.
>
> There might still a few problems left, e.g. the stty statement. I just
> didn't run across it.
>
> The module is a useful tool. I does what can be done. A few well known
> problems make use of dsmadmc less comfortable than it could be. The normal
> output format (for example with the q se command) in columns with column
> headers is difficult to process by a program. I would recommend to use
> the -comma option with dsmadmc. Even this way not everything is fine. In the
> output of the q db command some values are inclosed in double apostrophes,
> some are not for no visible reasons. Very annoying is the fact that numbers
> contain thousand separators which are useless in a comma separated output.
>
> So Adsm.pm is far better than nothing. But a general administration API is
> what we really need.
>
> Best regards
> Gerhad
>
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