Accessing an Individual Dataset via FiIeshare

You can configure an individual dataset to be accessed via Fileshare, or by a specific Fileshare server overriding the one specified in the Default Allocated Dataset Location.

Go to the FCT page for the file (in ESMAC, select Start L on the Resources dropdown list, then click FCT, then click Details by the file), and then:

• If the FCT entry is not linked to a catalog entry (there is no check mark by Use Catalog), look at the group of fields provided for specifying a physical filename to override the default location. Enter the name of the Fileshare server in the Fileshare Server field.
• If the FCT entry is linked to a catalog entry, go to the Catalog page for the file (select JES on the Resources dropdown list, click Catalog, then click Details by the file) - you see a Physical File field provided for specifying a physical filename to override the default location. Include the name of the Fileshare server in the path/filename you specify here.

  (Because JCL does not need transactional VSAM access, the catalog page does not have an explicit Fileshare Server field as the FCT entry does. However, simply including the Fileshare server name in the path in the Physical File field does as well.)

Note that the FCT page has check boxes called Backward Recovery and Forward Recovery. These are for use with integrated Fileshare, and are not relevant to stand-alone Fileshare.

In a similar way, you can specify that an extrapartition transient data file is to be accessed via Fileshare, by naming a Fileshare server on the file's DCT page in ESMAC. Also, the SIT page in ESMAC has four fields where you can specify that temporary storage queues (recoverable and non-recoverable) and intrapartition transient data files (recoverable and non-recoverable) are to be accessed via Fileshare.