I don't know any "BFS for Dummies". The OpenExtensions User's Guide is a pretty good introduction, if you can find time to read it.
BFS is just the Unix/Linux file system, so any book on Unix/Linux (aimed at users, not system administrators) should cover it. Specifically OpenExtensions (nee OpenEdi tion) is a POSIX subset of Unix so you could perhaps look for POSIX in the title. I learned from UNIX For Programmers And Users by Graham Glass, which is a good book. I see on Amazon that it has a third edition in print, now with Graham Glass and Ki ng Ables as authors. That won't tell you anything about CMS's particular implementation of the Unix file system.The only place to find that is in the IBM Manuals. If you wanted to tell us what problems you are having, I'm sure there are people on this list who can help you. Alan Ackerman Alan (dot) Ackerman (at) Bank of America (dot) com On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:42:25 -0400, Jim Bohnsack <jab...@cornell.edu> wro te: > Is there anything that would fit in the category of BFS for Dummies. >I've apparently, totally messed up BFS as it was installed from the >original z/VM 5.4 DVD's from IBM. My problem is that BFS is just >totally foreign to someone, like me, who has worked with the CMS file >system for the last 30+ years. I guess having RACF on the system >compounds the problem, at least as far as nomenclature is concerned. I >have found one RedBook, Open Edition Impl. & Admin that helps and bi ts >and pieces in 22 VM manuals. > >Jim > >-- >James Bohnsack >(972) 596-6377 home/office >(972) 342-5823 cell >======================== ========================= ========== ==============
