Administration
 
If you have downloaded DDF from the web, then you are a the de facto adminstrator for it. There is nothing in fact to do unless you are going to make DDF available to other people; then you need to:
  • copy the command UTCDSM5 to a central command library
  • ensure that the DDFLIB dataset is read-available to all potential DDF users
It's probably a good idea to keep track of what people think of DDF. This is done by means of the survey dataset. If the DDFLIB dataset is:
        QUAL1.QUAL2.DDFLIB
then you need to create a new dataset
        QUAL1.QUAL2.SURVEY
which DDF will look for. It should be an FB(80) PDS or PDS/E. If it's a PDS it should have plenty of directory space because DDF will generate one member for each DDF user and it must be available for update to all DDF users. Copy the member ZTEMPLAT from DDFLIB to the survey dataset.
      Every so often, DDF will display the ZTEMPLAT member to each user, asking them to fill in what they think of the product. DDF will then save it using the Userid as member name. DDF will also update the Userid's member on the survey each time they use the product; it will add one to the Mod field in the ISPF stats. Thus when you take a member list of the survey dataset, if you
        SORT CHANGED
you will see the last people to enter their views about DDF, which you can then look at, and if you
        SORT MOD
you can see who uses it most and how much.

If you want to send DDF to friends who do not have internet access, it's actually quite easy. Send them the Zip file from the web site (or use the one you downloaded from the site, of course) with a note to Unzip the file then open their browser on file dfr01.htm and follow the instructions