You've got some catchin' up to do. 8-) I would not use MAINT as a file space. Reason being, when new releases of VM come out, you'll have to worry about backing your stuff up and reloading it. Taken literally, no need to set up another Virtual Machine (I take this to mean install VM again and run it 2nd level or perhaps in an LPAR) either. You can define another VM user, and define SFS space to it. Then grant access to that space, those users who need it. I've glossed over the details and can provide them if you like.
Steve G. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fox Blue Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 11:04 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: X Disk in SFS Dear all, I am currently busy to understand the capabilities of SFS. Started in the late 80ies as system programmer we had VM/SP but there was no SFS. Since one year I am working on a z/VM installation and have to catch up with all th e new facilities in VM. I am wondering what would be best approach to define an X Disk in the SFS . I mean, normally one puts the files accessible to all users on a mini disk that everybody can access. How can you do that with SFS? Should it be a directory in the file space of MAINT or should I define an extra Virtual Machine for that? What would be the most common way of achieving this? Thanks very much in advance. Fox
