Sounds like it is almost made-to-order for a UNIX filesystem colony address space to allow a z/OS UNIX filesystem on an FBA device.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]>wrote: > On 9/17/2013 4:59 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >> In >> <5237891D.2090001@**phoenixsoftware.com<[email protected]>>, >> on 09/16/2013 >> at 03:41 PM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> said: >> >> I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk >>> files and has nothing whatsoever to do with tape. >>> >> I'm pretty sure that the support is intended to allow a server address >> space to access the FBA device, not to allow allocation to an >> unprivileged job. >> > > Absolutely! An authorized server address space will be necessary to allow > non-privileged programs to do FBA I/O. The requirements of the IOSFBA > service are: > > *01* ENVIRONMENT: > * Dispatchable unit mode: Task mode. > * Minimum authorization: Supervisor state, PSW Key 0. > * AMODE: 31- or 64-bit. > * ASC mode: Primary. > * Cross Memory Mode: PASN=HASN=SASN. > * Interrupt status: Enabled for I/O and external interrupts. > * Locks: No locks held. > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.**com/ <http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- As of next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
