Preparing to create an MVS file

When creating an MVS file, you should know whether to process the file in text or binary mode (see Selection of text or binary processing modes–text, binary) and what type of file to create.

The z/OS NFS server supports the following types of files.

Physical sequential (PS) data sets, including basic format and extended format data sets but excluding compressed format data sets.
Direct access (DA)
Partitioned data sets (PDS)
Partitioned data sets extended (PDSE)
VSAM KSDS
VSAM ESDS
VSAM RRDS

Keyed access and relative record number access to files is not supported. GDG data sets are not supported.