Think very, very large. Our XML HFS is about half the size of the z/OS logical root. (z/OS 1.8? You are certainly in reach-ahead mode.)
Data Set Name . . . : OSR17.OMVS.XML General Data Current Allocation Management class . . : **None** Allocated tracks . : 20,585 Storage class . . . : **None** Allocated extents . : 2 Volume serial . . . : R17CAT Maximum dir. blocks : NOLIMIT Device type . . . . : 3390 Data class . . . . . : **None** Organization . . . : PO Current Utilization Record format . . . : U Used pages . . . . : 222,720 Record length . . . : 0 % Utilized . . . . : 90 Block size . . . . : 0 Number of members . : 21,006 1st extent tracks . : 18713 Secondary tracks . : 1872 Data set name type : HFS Creation date . . . : 2005/06/29 Referenced date . . : 2006/01/01 Expiration date . . : ***None*** As for mounting, we use this in BPXPARM for the SMP/E install-only HFS: MOUNT FILESYSTEM('OSR17.OMVS.XML') TYPE(HFS) MODE(RDWR) MOUNTPOINT('/OSR17/usr/lpp/ixm/IBM/') You don't have much flexibility in the mount point because of the assumptions made by various components about the location of other components. Same goes for the run-time HFS. . . . JO.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 01/03/2006 02:46:57 PM: > I am attempting to install the XML toolkit for z/os 1.8. I get to a > certain point in the installation instructions and confusion arises. > Any help would be appreciated. I will summarize below, where I am and > where I am confused. > > Thanx in advance > Brad Taylor > > 1. I have downloaded and read the instructions. > 2. I have created a download directory for the install package in a > separate HFS and mounted it. > MKDIR '/u/cbt1' MODE(7,5,5) > MKDIR '/u/cbt1/xml18' MODE(7,5,5) > MOUNT FILESYSTEM('USER.XML18.HFS') + > MOUNTPOINT('/u/cbt1/xml18') + > TYPE(HFS) MODE(RDWR) > 3. I have created my own CSI for all SMP/E jobs. > 4. I have updloaded the file from my workstation to the download > directory created above. > 5. I have unpaxed the uploaded file > oshell cd /u/cbt1/xml18/ > pax -rvf /u/cbt1/xml18/xml180.pax.Z > 6. I have GIMUNZIPed unpaxed data createing the smp/e relfiles > 7. I created the GLOBAL, TARGET, and DLIB zones in the smp/e csi. > 8. I allocated the smp/e datasets SIXMEXP, AIXMEXP, AIXMHFS, SMPLOG, > SMPPTS > 9. I did the SMP/E RECEIVE for the FMIDs HXML160, HXML170, HXML180. > > The next thing I am supposed to do is run a JOB IXMISMKD from the ....F1 > relfile. The program directory indicates that this could be installed in > its own HFS, which is what I want to do. However there is no indication > of sizing information or how to do that. I am thinking that I should > create an HFS and mount it at /usr/lpp/ixm, since this is where the > directory structure is created by the IXMMKDIR exec supplied as part of > the installation. Since /usr/lpp/ixm already exists, in a read-only > file system, I am thinking that I also need to temporarily mount that > read/write and delete the ixm directory, prior to mounting the newly > created file system. So my questions are: > 1. where do I get sizing information, or is that AIXMHFS file > allocated earlier somehow related (does not look like an HFS). > 2. is createing and mounting the HFS at /usr/lpp/ixm, the correct > thing to do? <snip> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html