Skip Robinson wrote:
When I first saw this question, I resisted the urge to jump in until I had
a better notion of the issues. Here goes.
A while back I looked at a production control challenge here that seemed
to have one obvious solution: mount an AIX file on USS and edit it with
ISPF. I asked IBM if I could do that. The answer, alas, was NO because the
mainframe SAMBA is only a *server*. z/OS has no client function.
Requirements invited, but nothing in the hopper.
Hence you can mount a USS file on Windows and rename or delete it. Or edit
it with Notepad. (Whoopee.) Or you can mount a USS file on AIX and edit it
with VI, the greatest editor to have survived the computer Stone Age with
no fundamental enhancements.
What you cannot do is manage other-platform files from USS. If that's what
the original question was about.
Unless I got it totally wrong.
There may be no SAMBA client _yet_ on z/OS, but there is an NFS client.
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