On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:41 PM, zos reader <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> In my environment, by default OMVS is root directories will be in Read
> mode. I have request from DB2 to create a directory on root directory and
> mount to zfs file.
>
> Directory to be created -     /products/DB2
>
> ZFS file to mounted - SYS1. OMVS.DB2V10.RSU.ZFS
>
> Once i am done with my directory creation and mounting i need to revert
> back to Read mode itself.
>
> i am not much familiar on OMVS side, please help me to get this done
>

​The easiest way is to use ISHELL (from ISPF option 6). Put a slash, /, for
the root directory in the lower area ​where the path goes. Put the cursor
on "File_Systems" at the top & press ENTER. Select option 1 (Mount table).
Find the DSN of your root filesystem in the list. Put an M in front of it.
Select option 1 to remount as READ/WRITE. !! IMPORTANT !! make sure that
you select the proper root system. z/OS has three: SYSPLEX, VERSION, and
SYSTEM. You need to remount the appropriate one, in my case that is the
SYSPLEX one. Use ISPF option 6 to create the directory. Most easily:

MKDIR '/products' MODE(7,5,5)
MKDIR '/products/DB2' MODE(7,5,5)

You only need the first MKDIR if the /products directory does not already
exist. Which I assume that it does not. Strange that they're putting it
there rather than /usr/lpp, but I don't know DB2 installation.

Remount the root as READONLY using ISHELL again.

One problem: the /products and /products/DB2 directories will be owned by
the user who does the commands. Also, I am assuming that you have the
proper UNIX authorities to do the commands to the root directory.

To me, it is easier to do the above in the OMVS (UNIX shell) environment.
On ISPF option 6, do: OMVS to get a UNIX shell. You can now enter the
commands (pay attention to case, it matters!)

chmount -w / #change root to writable
mkdir -p -m 0755 /products/DB2 # create directory
chown 0:0 /products # change owner to root
chown 0:0 /products/DB2
chmount -r / # change back to readonly
mount -f SYS1.OMVS.DBV2V10.RSU.ZFS /products/DB2
exit

The # mark tells the shell that the rest of the line is a comment, omit if
you want to. I put it in just to let you know what each line is doing.
Update the appropriate BPXPRMxx member of PARMLIB to mount the filesystem
at IPL time.




>
> Thanks,
> Samat.
>
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