On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 12:12 PM Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote:
> I wonder what kind of effort it might be for z/OS to support Unix path > names as aliases/links to MVS legacy data sets. Probably a lot of work, > but it seems like it would be quite useful for situations such as this > where the Unix application only supports Unix paths. > > Just a wild thought. Not opening an RFE for it or anything, unless > someone can say it sounds at all reasonable. > > By the way, z/OS Unix is z/OS, as some like to say. I prefer to use the > terms "legacy data sets" or "MVS data sets" saying "the z/OS side". It's > all z/OS! 🙂 > > Supposedly, you can use the NFS server on z/OS to export a PDS or up to some node of a DSN which can then mount into a UNIX filesystem, on the same or other system using the NFS client of that system. But I never got it to work on my very old z/OS 1.12 system. NFS might just be a bit too complicated for my old brain. -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
