Thanks, Joe.  I agree.  You are reading my mind.  I made the same
suggestion and the idea was well-received.  I'll be looking into how to
accomplish that, too.

The biggest issue to overcome is migration, from an unstructured to a
structured directory, without losing any customer additions.  And the
build-and-ship process for NetView is horribly complicated, having evolved
through many different incarnations (AIX-only filesets using installp,
Solaris tar files, Tivoli File Packets, Installshield on Windows) which
makes it  that much harder to change things structurally.  But I certainly
agree it should be done if we can figure out the best way, and they give me
the cycles to do it.

Thanks for your input.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group