https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=output-dcollect-record-structure
Defines the fields in DCOLLECT output data set.
Includes HFS and zFS field definitions.

On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 9:37 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, I'm not z/OS Unix guru, but it seems pretty easy to me.
> First - mounted filesystems can be listed using several methods
> including SDSF, MVS command, ish pull down menu, BPXPRMFS member.
> Second - automount.
> Third - "dummy, lost, forgotten" HFS, that means the dataset exists, but
> it is not mounted or listed. It is not hard to list such datasets
> residing on DASD. Things are more complex when it is on ML2 or backed up
> and deleted or just dumped using DSS to some sequential dataset. However
> this is the same case as with ISAM datasets. Maybe someone still has
> some ISAM datasets in his dump file?
>
> IMHO more important is to have a procedure/process/project to convert
> HFS to ZFS. Some filesystems can be unmounted with no harm to
> production, but some cannot.
>
> --
> Radoslaw Skorupka
> Lodz, Poland
>
>
>
> W dniu 07.10.2021 o 09:25, Colin Paice pisze:
> > I think the question came up from someone who had not had to administer
> > ZFS/HFS before. It was one of these "where do I start" questions.  Of
> > course once you are familiar with an area it gets easier.
> > Colin
> >
> > On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 at 22:04, Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> W dniu 06.10.2021 o 16:44, Ed Jaffe pisze:
> >>> On 10/6/2021 7:11 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> >>>> z/OS 2.4 is the last release of the operating system to support the
> >>>> HFS (Hierarchical File System) data structure used by the z/OS UNIX
> >>>> environment. IBM has provided equivalent if not superior
> >>>> functionality with the z/OS File System (zFS). Customers should
> >>>> migrate from HFS to zFS using the utilities provided in the operating
> >>>> system to convert their entire file system hierarchy.
> >>> I always intended to ask how customers can identify all of their HFS
> >>> data sets. Is it something in ISMF?
> >>>
> >> Maybe my English is poor, but I don't understand the question.
> >> What's hard in identifying HFS datasets?
> >>
> >> 1. BPXPRMFS show all mounted filesystems. Just a list to check.
> >> 2. AUTOmount is rather easy to check.
> >> 3. Last, but not least there are tools like IDCAMS DCOLLECT and LISTDSI.
> >> 4. Other cases would live in backup/ML form or just as loosely idea.
> >>
> >> What am I missing?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Radoslaw Skorupka
> >> Lodz, Poland
> >>
> >>
>
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