Customization instructions Connect to the lowest directory in the path that is already customized. One way to check whether a directory is customized is to use the vwp command while connected to the directory. If one of the components in the physical name for the directory includes the the name of your virtual system it is probably a customized view. Let 'thisdir' be the name of the current directory and 'subdir' the name of the subdirectory that is to be customized. Do a vls -u to find out the name of the union link for the uncustomized version of the current directory. The subdirectory to be customized should not show up in this list*. For the purpose of this example, pretend that the union linked directory is named 'usprot'. Execute the following commands: vmkdir subdir vcd -u usprot vln -u subdir ../thisdir/subdir/usprot That should do it. Do a vcd ../thisdir/subdir followed by a vls -u and a vls to make sure things worked. You can now use vln to add links to your customized copy of the current directory. Use vln's "-c" (customize) option to make sure that vln does not think that the uncustomized target of the link is the directory in which the new link is to be added. If you are trying to customize a directory deep in the hierarchy, each directory in the path from the root must be customized though it is expected that those in the higher levels of the hierarchy might have already been taken care of (when you customized other directories sharing a common prefix). * : The subdirectory to be customized would be in the union linked directory, if you see the subdirectory in the current directory when you do the vls -u, then a different procedure must be followed.