Utilize a Shared Disk Between MVS and VM

If a disk or minidisk is shared between MVS and VM, a PS or PO file created under MVS can be read from VM CMS.

Sometimes there is no need to transfer the PO/PS file to VM. Perhaps just a notification is needed to inform the user that the file created under MVS is now available. For a description of various user notification options, see IOA—An Integrated Solution.

For a description of the various VM CMS commands that process and query MVS datasets such as MOVEFILE or STATE, see the relevant IBM manual.

MVS catalog services cannot be accessed in a standard way from VM. Therefore, to read the file, the VM CMS user must know on which disk the file resides.