In this example, the mount command is used to modify two processing attributes, specifying binary (rather than text), and readtimeout(30) (rather than the server default readtimeout value):

# mount mvshost1:"smith,binary,readtimeout(30)" /u/smith/mnt

In this example:

Operand

Description

mvshost1

Specifies the name of the host server.

smith

Specifies the name of the high-level qualifier of the MVS data sets or z/OS UNIX directory (depending on the IMPPREFIX( ) site attribute setting).

binary

Specifies the processing mode for file contents sent between z/OS and the client (binary mode avoids ASCII/EBCDIC conversion).

readtimeout(30)

Specifies the amount of time (30 seconds) allowed since the last read access before the file is closed.

/u/smith/mnt

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

At the same time, you can specify the MVS prefix for the mount point.