Re: What's an IASP?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The device  in "/dev/iASPName/therestofthepath"  is not needed but the 
iASP shows up as a directory in *SYSBAS.  In order to address it you:  
"/myiASP/therestofthepath...."  You name the iASP but not the device 
(which of course are almost always the same)

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 6/13/2013 10:43 AM, Mark S Waterbury wrote:
> Jim:
>
> The only requirement for "/dev/IASPname/" in the path name is for naming
> the *BLOCKSF when creating a UDFS.
>
> Prompt the CRTUDFS command and press F1=Help in the UDFS (first) input
> field.
>
>
> Once the UDFS is created, you can mount it anywhere in the IFS directory
> tree.  For example:
>
>       mount type(*UDFS) mfs('/dev/MYIASP/MYUDFS.udfs') mntovrdir('/myspace')
>
>       where "myspace" is an empty directory in the root of the IFS (in
> this example).
>
> Prompt the MOUNT command and press F1=Help, then F2= Extended Help, and
> page down to the section on MFS and MNTOVRDIR.
>
> So, then, once mounted, we can refer to files within this UDFS as:
>
>       /myspace/zero-or-more-subdirectories/target-streamfile.name
>
> Hope that helps to clarify the situation.
>
> Mark S. Waterbury
>
>   >  On 6/13/2013 7:39 AM, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:
> > >  ...(snip)...
> > >
> > >  James, the biggest issue with iASP and the application is to remember
> > >  that work management to the extent you need to worry about it does
> > >  change.  You have to be sure each job has the iASP set properly, which
> > >  is easy to do but requires an extra step.  Also referring to the IFS
> > >  changes since you will have to set the path as
> > >  '/myiASP/nowmydirectorystring/whatever'  so the IFS objects are found in
> > >  the iASP IFS instead of *SYSBAS.  A few symbolic links can ease that
> > >  effort quite a bit.
> > >
> > >  ...(snip)...
> > >
> > >
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