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Refer to the following documentation here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=planning-managing-union-file-system-ufs
The main limitations are
* UFS requires z/OS 2.5 or higher
* UFS is local to a system, so in a sysplex with shared filesystems, things must be duplicated
* updating the (supposedly read-only) product directory outside of UFS results in undefined behavior
work to be done:
* activate Union File System (UFS) in PARMLIB(BPXPRMxx)
FILESYSTYPE TYPE(UFS) ENTRYPOINT(BPXUNINT)
* create this directory structure
mkdir /var/akg
mkdir /var/akg/local
mkdir /var/akg/local/cr
mkdir /var/akg/local/cr/features -> will hold site-specific data
mkdir /var/akg/local/cr/plugins -> will hold site-specific data
mkdir /var/akg/ufs -> UFS mountpoint, data written here will end up in /var/akg/local
mkdir /var/akg/work
* mount writable local dir over read-only product dir on UFS mountpoint
mount -t ufs -o upperdir=/var/akg/local,lowerdir=/usr/lpp/IBM/akg,workdir=/var/akg/work -f akg.ufs /var/akg/ufs
* from now on access CR through the UFS mountpoint for runtime purposes, both for read (AKGCR JCL PROC) or write (add site-specific data)
//AKGCR PROC PATH='/var/akg/ufs'
Notes:
* There is no real need to use sample JCL AKGCRADD, just place your site-specific files in /var/akg/ufs/cr/{plugins|features}
* before applying a PTF, unmount /var/akg/ufs, apply PTF (with SMPE using the /usr/lpp/IBM/akg path) and then remount ufs to avoid undefined behavior