7.3.3 Add to an existing policy With z/OS V1R6 we have the capability to add new automount managed directories to the existing automount policy. To do this a new flag was added to the command line. The - a option, shown in Figure 7-20, indicates that the policy being loaded is to be appended to the existing policy rather than replacing it. /usr/sbin/automount -a Figure 7-20 Add to an existing policy 7.3.4 Support "#" as comment delimiter in the map file In order to provide a more common syntax with shell script files, z/OS V1R3 supports the "#" character as a comment delimiter in map files, as shown in Figure 7-21 on page 305. ##################### # Automount Map File for /u # ##################### name * type HFS filesystem OMVS.<uc_name>.HFS mode rdwr duration 1440 delay 360 Figure 7-21 Example map file with "#" as a comment delimiter