On Wed, 10 May 2023 20:06:08 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
>DSFS may help out here. Let JES2 allocate a PDS and let the users who just
>have to be Unixy access the PDS through DSFS. I'd suggest the /dsfs/txt/
>branch. Use some symlinks if desired.
>
>I've found that DSFS works very well. It was also easy to set up and get
>going. There's some weirdness in how it's implemented, but whatever.
>
There are just two manuals describing DSFS:
z⧸OS Data Set File System Administration
z⧸OS Data Set File System Messages and Codes
DSFS is not mentioned by that initialism in the UNIX Command Ref. nor in the
UNIX User's Guide.
There are characteristics of DSFS that are more relevant to end users than to
administrators.
I'm accustomed to keeping a mixture of shell scripts, REXX execs, and program
objects in
a single UNIX directory. The Administration manual makes it clear that DSFS
prohibits this.
I can have links to the same UNIX file in multiple directories. Does DSFS
support this, perhaps
through the colony address space?
if multiple batch jobs append records to a single log file with DISP=MOD, can a
UNIX process
follow that log with "tail -f"?
Any such restrictions should be exposed as matters for end users, not just
Administration.
--
gil
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