In a message dated 95-07-31 18:58:57 EDT, [log in to unmask] (Jeff
Vance) writes:
 
>On Jul 31,  9:46am, Gary L. Paveza, Jr. wrote:
>> Subject: ALTACCT FEATURE
>snip...
>>
>> In our shop we use the volume set management.  All of our users use a
>> volume set called "Auxillary" while our system uses the good old
>> "MPEXL_SYSTEM_VOLUME_SET".  We were having problems because some of the
>> programmers were building their own groups, but know nothing about the
>> volume set management.  As a result they were building the groups with
>> NEWGROUP group.account effectively putting the account on the system
>> volume set.  Asking nicely hasn't done any good.  They just keeping
>> building whenever they want.
>
>Good suggestion about limiting files=0 on the system volume set of the
>account
>snipped...
>
>The NEWGROUP UDC available on jazz (http://jazz.external.hp.com) may help
>here
>too.  It can enforce all :newgroup commands to automatically be HOMEVS'd to
>a volume set assigned to the group's acocunt.  This way no one can create a
>group who's files will reside on the system volume set.  (There are SM
>and configuration overrides available).  It is free on jazz and can be made
>available via ftp is that is better for you.
>
>Jeff Vance, MPE Lab
 
I have had extensive experience with the NEWGROUP UDC authored
by Jeff and can say that it meets the needs of most users using user
volumes.  I managed 5 systems using 30 user volumes and 600Gb of
disk space only because that UDC existed.  (Thanks Jeff!).
 
However,  the major problem is that HP created one of the best features
ever with User Volumes on MPE/XL and then stopped before they
completed it.  In the days before 1.0 I submitted over 150 SRs on volume
management including the functionality of Jeff's UDC into MPE/XL.
At present..... No results,  Most of the SRs have been resubmitted since
then.
 
All I can say is I'm glad Jeff Vance recognizes the users needs.
 
Steve Cole
Outer Banks Solutions