[Info-vax] Use of logical names other than I/O redirection

[abrsvc]

On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 7:56:46 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-09-14 kl. 10:12, skrev Marc Van Dyck: 
> > Arne Vajhøj brought next idea : 
> >> 
> >> It requires changes to users login.com if I understand it 
> >> correctly. 
> >> 
> > Not the way we have implemented it. The logic is common and included 
> > in SYLOGIN.COM and it's all driven by the rights ids granted to the 
> > different user accounts. 
> >
> On our system, the normal users doesn't even have an private 
> home directory, and even less a private LOGIN.COM. The dev/dir 
> setting in the UAF just points to a common scratch directory. 
> Nothing is ever written there anyway, apart from some process 
> dump or such. But nothing by-design from the applications. 
> 
> Everthing is controlled by the menu system and one common LOGIN 
> file where any special setup for some specific user is handled.

There are  many valid techniques that have been used over the years.  In my case, the logicals were "controlled" by UIC groups.  We built group level (and private tables) all triggered by the UIC group.  This worked well for our application environment.  Each group had their own private tables added to the search list in addition to the group level.

Dan