Mount command examples 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 files in the z/OS file system.

# mount mvshost1:"/mvs/smith" /u/smith/mnt

In this example:

Operand

Description

mvshost1

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.

/u/smith/mnt

Specifies the name of the mount point (preferably an empty directory).

At the same time, you can specify attributes for the mount point, overriding the default attributes.