z/OS Introduction and Workshop

Unix System Services

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 Unit Objectives

After completing this unit, you should be able to:

• Understand Unix System Services is a base ‘element’
• Understand z/OS uses both MVS and Unix simultaneously
• Understand z/OS is an open operating system capable of web enabling all applications
• Understand z/OS differences between MVS data sets and Unix files
• Understand executable programs can be stored in MVS data sets or Unix files
• Understand data can be stored in MVS data sets or Unix files
• Understand z/OS programs can simultaneously access MVS data sets and Unix files
• Recognize the Unix System Services 3 character component identifier

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 Unix System Services - Comparisons

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 Unix System Services – ISHELL, OMVS, TELNET, SSH

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Unix System Services

z/OS UNIX System Services is tightly integrated into the operating system and a key
element of IBM open and distributed computing strategy.

WebSphere Application Server, CICS, IMS, Java Runtime, Tuxedo, DB2, WebSphere
MQ, SAP R/3, Lotus Domino, and Oracle Web Server all use z/OS UNIX.

z/OS UNIX applications can communicate with DB2, CICS, IMS, and WebSphere MQ.

z/OS UNIX is built for the enterprise where you can prioritize workloads for high
performance when running with a mixed workload.

z/OS UNIX has a hierarchical file system familiar to UNIX users.

Applications can work with data in both UNIX hierarchical file systems and traditional
MVS data sets

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Unix System Services - tightly integrated within z/OS BCP

The kernel is part of the BCP element of z/OS; it sends instructions to the
processor, schedules work, manages I/O, and tracks processes, open files,
and shared memory, among other things. Other parts of the operating system
or applications request the kernel's services using assembler callable services
(called syscalls). No work gets done in z/OS UNIX without involving the kernel.

A common misconception is that application programmers have a choice of either

running UNIX programs that use UNIX services and file systems or running
MVS programs that use MVS services and MVS data sets. You do not have to
choose between z/OS UNIX and MVS.

There is no wall between UNIX and MVS and there are no "sides"; you do not run
"on the UNIX side" or "the MVS side". z/OS is a powerful blend of UNIX
System Services and MVS.

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Unix System Services

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UNIX System Services – File Systems

z/OS UNIX System Services (z/OS UNIX) allows z/OS to access UNIX files.

A z/OS UNIX file system is hierarchical and byte-oriented.

Files in the UNIX file system are sequential files and are accessed as byte streams.

UNIX files and traditional z/OS data sets can reside on the same DASD volume.

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Unix System Services – File Systems

A physical file system (PFS) controls access to data.

PFSs receive and act upon requests to read and write files that they control.
The format of these requests is defined by the PFS interface.

PFSs include pipes, sockets, the Network File System client, and the following
UNIX file systems:
HFS - Hierarchical File System (special data set type HFS)
zFS - zSeries File System (VSAM formatted by utility to be unix file system)
TFS - Temporary File System

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Unix System Services – File Systems

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Unix System Services – File Systems

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JCL to create Unix filesystem

//DEFINE EXEC PGM=IDCAMS

//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
DEFINE CLUSTER(NAME(ZOS.UNIX.USER) LINEAR -
SHAREOPTIONS(2) VOLUMES(VPWRKC) CYL(3000))
// IF RC = 0 THEN
//FORMAT EXEC PGM=IOEAGFMT,REGION=0M,
// PARM=('-aggregate ZOS.UNIX.USER -compat')
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//STDERR DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUDUMP DD DUMMY
//CEEDUMP DD DUMMY
// ELSE
// ENDIF

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JCL to mount Unix filesystem

//MOUNT EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01

//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTERM DD DUMMY
//SYSTSIN DD *
MKDIR ‘/u/zos/zfs’
MOUNT FILESYSTEM(‘ZOS.UNIX.USER') -
TYPE(ZFS) MODE(RDWR) -
MOUNTPOINT('/u/zos/zfs')
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Unix System Services – Data Sets with Unix Filesystems

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Unix System Services – D OMVS,F display mounted files

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 Unix System Services – MVS Data Sets <> Unix Files

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Unix System Services – MVS Data Sets <> Unix Files

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Unix System Services – MVS Data Sets <> Unix Files

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 Unix System Services – MVS Data Sets <> Unix Files

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Unix System Services – Unix Process display using SDSF

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Unix System Services – unix command output

Unix
processes

System info

User activity

Manual pages c compiler

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z/OS Unix shell

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 z/OS Unix shell

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z/OS Unix shell

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z/OS Unix shell

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Unix System Services – unix ls command output

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Unix System Services – D OMVS,A=ALL

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Unix System Services – MVS base component

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Unix System Services – Initialization Parameters

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Unix System Services – SYSLOG Messages

BPXF013I FILE SYSTEM OMVS.SVSCPLEX.ROOT

BPXF013I FILE SYSTEM ..................

BPXF203I DOMAIN AF_INET WAS SUCCESSFULLY ACTIVATED.

BPXF203I DOMAIN AF_UNIX WAS SUCCESSFULLY ACTIVATED.
BPXF224I THE RESOLVER_PROC, RESOLVER, IS BEING STARTED.

BPXI004I OMVS INITIALIZATION COMPLETE

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Unix System Service Manuals

z/OS Unix System Services Bookshelf

Command Reference
User's Guide
Programming Tools

MVS Bookshelf
Initialization and Tuning Reference (BPXPRMxx)

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 Unit Summary

Having completed this unit, you should be able to:

 Understand Unix System Services is a base ‘element’
 Understand z/OS uses both MVS and Unix simultaneously
 Understand z/OS is an open operating system capable of web enabling all applications
 Understand z/OS differences between MVS data sets and Unix files
 Understand executable programs can be stored in MVS data sets or Unix files
 Understand data can be stored in MVS data sets or Unix files
 Understand z/OS programs can simultaneously access MVS data sets and Unix files
 Recognize the Unix System Services 3 character component identifier

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