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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace z/OS
Categories USS
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 13, 2023

RELATED IDEAS

In the default z/OS distribution predefine empty mount point /dsfs

With the default SMP/E root filesystem please deliver it with a /dsfs mount point so that it is there and won't be lost with maintenance.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Dec 15, 2023
    A previously mentioned, this already exists as of V2R5.
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 13, 2023
    You do get /dsfs in the version root as part of serverpac. Otherwise, you would need to update your sysplex root using SYS1.SAMPLIB(BPXISYS1).
  • Guest
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    |     Oct 30, 2023

    If the plan is for dsfs to become pervasive then it needs to be defined in the root filesystem by default out of the 'box'

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 15, 2023

    Good to know - I was told by the sysprog maintaining our z/OS 2.5 system that it wasn't. Perhaps he didn't know about these samplib members.

    But given that these are SAMPLIB that means that it isn't a default but one that each site must take action on ????

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 14, 2023

    This is already available. In z/OS V2.5 and z/OS 3.1, /dsfs is a mountpoint in both the root file system (version root) and in the sysplex root file system. See:
    - SYS1.SAMPLIB(BPXMKDIR) - for root file system (version root)
    - SYS1.SAMPLIB(BPXISYS1) - for sysplex root

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