You can allocate and process files contained on remote Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers as Natural print files and work files. Prerequisite: BS2000/OSD V9.0 (or above) must be installed at your site.

Starting with BS2000/OSD V9.0, Net Storage supports access to Network Attached Storage (NAS) servers over the BS2000/OSD Network File System (NFS). Since NFS access is transparently mapped to the access methods of the BS2000/OSD data managment system, files on Net Storage volumes can be processed with the Natural print/work file access method in the same way as files on local disk storage.

For more information on Net Storage and NFS, refer to the appropriate BS2000/OSD manuals from Fujitsu.

The following are JCL examples for allocating a Natural work file on an NAS volume mounted to a Pubset named NFS9:

Example of Work File Allocation - ISP Format:

/FILE :NFS9:$USERID.NETSTORAGE.WORK.01,LINK=W01,DEVICE=NETSTOR,-
/VOLUME=NET000
...

Example of Work File Allocation - SDF Format:

/CREATE-FILE FILE-NAME=-        
/:NFS9:$USERID.NETSTORAGE.WORK.01,SUPPORT=PRIVATE-DISK(VOLUME=NET000,-
/DEVICE-TYPE=NETSTOR,SPACE=STD),SUPPRESS-ERRORS=*FILE-EXISTING
...
/ADD-FILE-LINK LINK-NAME=W01,FILE-NAME=-                              
/:NFS9:$USERID.NETSTORAGE.WORK.01                
...