mount command example using an MVS prefix

Use the mount command to make a connection between a mount point on your local file system and one or more data sets on z/OS.

C:\>mount \\mvshost\MVS\smith j:
j: is now successfully connected to \\mvshost\MVS\smith

In this example:

Operand

Description

mvshost

Specifies the name of the host server.

MVS

The MVS prefix.

smith

Specifies the name of the high-level qualifier of the MVS data sets.

j:

Specifies the name of the mount point.

Unlike other clients supported by z/OS NFS, do not specify attributes for the mount point on the mount command. Although they are honored, these attributes may cause the Windows 10 native NFS client to intermittently misbehave and should not be specified. Further, the specification of the mount target (the prefix and the high-level data set qualifier) should match the directory segments of a line in the output of the showmount -e command including case in order to avoid potential issues. See Displaying server mount information for examples of the showmount command.