Then you enter the mount command to make a connection between a mount point on your local file system and a directory or file in the z/OS UNIX file system. After a directory is mounted, you can create, delete, read, or write to a file in or below that directory in the file hierarchy; generally, you can treat a file in or below that directory as a member of your own workstation file system.

• For text files, the Network File System feature handles conversion between the EBCDIC code page used in the z/OS® shell and the ASCII code page used at your workstation.
• RACF® checks the authority of a workstation user to access z/OS UNIX files on the host. This is based on the authority of the MVS™ user ID specified on the mvslogin command.