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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:	OLD ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:	Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:	IOSG::PYE

Created:	Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:	Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	4343
Total number of notes:	18308

2445.0. "Manual BMA help wanted" by GIDDAY::BURT (Chele Burt - CSC Sydney, DTN 7355693) Mon Mar 22 1993 06:29

Hello and greetings,

A rather large customer (Australian Broadcasting Commission) is currently 
running ALL-IN-1 V2.4 (British). They plan to upgrade to V3 in a matter 
of weeks. (days?)

The customer has opened up new mail areas, and closed off old mail areas.
He has a number of disks, of which 4 are SHAR*. There are bits of shared area 
hither, thither and yon.

The customer almost certainly needs to run BMA. The customer doesn't WANT to 
run BMA. He'd like a MANUAL procedure, as the site has literally HUNDREDS of 
departments (& BMA works, of course, by department).

This is giving me the horrors.

Help?

Thanks & regards,

Chele

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
2445.1	doable	UTRTSC::SCHOLLAERT	At least the beer was good...	`Tue Mar 23 1993 19:44`	17
	Chele, >There are bits of shared area hither, thither and yon. Is that good or bad news ? >The customer almost certainly needs to run BMA. The customer doesn't WANT to >run BMA. He'd like a MANUAL procedure, as the site has literally HUNDREDS of I don't see a problem in manually updating the Mail Area Profile fields for certain (groups) of users. Regards, Jan
2445.2	help?	GIDDAY::BURT	Chele Burt - CSC Sydney, DTN 7355693	`Wed Mar 24 1993 04:19`	14
	Hi Jan, >> I don't see a problem in manually updating the Mail Area >> Profile fields for certain (groups) of users. Do you have any hints on just how to go about it? Won't all the user's need their docdb.dats etc modified if their shared files get shifted about? THAT'S the bit that's bothering me... Thanks & regards, Chele
2445.3	BMA does not look back	UTRTSC::SCHOLLAERT	At least the beer was good...	`Wed Mar 24 1993 07:14`	20
	Chele >Do you have any hints on just how to go about it? Won't all the user's need >their docdb.dats etc modified if their shared files get shifted about? >THAT'S the bit that's bothering me... BMA does not touch old files. All newly created mails will be stored in the modified Mail Area location(s). That's why all the logical to all area and all directories are needed. Regards, Jan
2445.4	That's why we use logicals	IOSG::SHOVE	Dave Shove -- REO2-G/M6	`Wed Mar 24 1993 17:22`	12
	To amplify what Jan said in .-1: All references to shared area files are always via the OA$SHARxyyy logicals - so you can move shared area directories quite happily provided you make sure that the logicals get updated (by changing the appropriate entries in the master files in v3.0). It's for jsut that reason that the file cabinet doesn't store translated file specs, even though it would perform better if it did (instead of forcing RMS to translate the logicals at run-time). D.