Using z/OS conventional MVS data sets

This topic explains what you need to know to use z/OS conventional MVS™ data sets on a client workstation. This topic discusses the following topics:

Special MVS considerations
Reading and writing MVS data sets
Accessing MVS data sets
Mapping between the workstation and MVS file systems.

In MVS, a file is called a data set, and the two terms are used interchangeably in this book. The z/OS NFS server presents information to you in the form of a UNIX (or AIX) file, though the information is actually stored on MVS-owned DASD in the form of an MVS data set.