On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:56:36 +0000, Mark Jacob wrote: >I asked that question last year, and the answer I got back was that NFS can >export a directory under /dsfs. > Did you try it? Did it work?
>On Wednesday, July 16th, 2025 at 6:23 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > >> Does DSFS require NFS for "direct" file access from a remote system >> (Windows, Linux, Unix, and maybe even another z/OS system)? >> Why? >> I know FTP, SFTP, and Connect: Direct (and others) can be used to transmit >> files to/from DSFS. But can you "mount" a DSFS on, for example, a Windows >> machine as being a "remote" file system? Is NFS required to do this? I know >> SMB/DFS support was dropped a few releases ago. >> We have had success NFS-exporting MVS. DSFS would add a layer of protocol conversion with hazards of restrictions and errors. Even better, keep your data in an actual UNIX filesystem which can be mounted via an MVS NFS dclient. This eliminages restrictions such as: o Member name length limitation o Character set restriction o Case insensitivity restriction o Prohibition of program objects and REXX execs in a single directory. (Yes, those program objects would be useless on the desktop.) We used a UNIX (Solaris) NFS server. which also served SMB. This served MVS and UNIX desktop clients and Windows desktop clients. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
