Update Link Screen - IBM Professional Series User Manual

Update Link Screen
You are now looking at the UPDATE LINK screen. This
screen is used to build links to other users' minidisks.
Suppose another user of your system has a minidisk that
contains information that the owner of the USERID
SAMPLE routinely needs to access. Let's say that this
other user is defined to the system with the USERID of
STEVE, and that the minidisk that SAMPLE needs is known
to STEVE's virtual machine as address "101."
You can build a link for SAMPLE to STEVE's 101 minidisk,
so that both USERIDs can access the same minidisk by
doing the following:
1. In the "Virtual Disk Address" field, type the address of
the minidisk as seen by SAMPLE. Since SAMPLE
already has a 101 minidisk, you must define the link with
some other address, such as "201."
2. In the "USERID (owner)" field, type the USERID that
owns the minidisk. In our example, the owner is
"STEVE."
3. In the "Owner's Virtual Address" field, type the address
of the minidisk as it is known to its owner. In our
example, this is "101."
4. In the last field, "Link Mode," type either an "R" for
read only or "W" for read/write. If SAMPLE only
needs to look at the information on STEVE's minidisk,
and should not be allowed to modify it, then the mode
should be "R." If SAMPLE needs to modify the
information, then the mode should be "W." For our
example, type "R."
In this link example, you have given the user SAMPLE
read-only access to the user STEVE's 101 minidisk, and the
minidisk is known to SAMPLE's virtual machine as 201.
Since you will not want to save the example information,
press function key 5 (F5) to return to the LINK LIST
screen. Then move the cursor to the "eMS 100" link and
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