Place files under the management of the file server.

Mandatory.

Define LSR buffer pools.

Optional. Check the documentation of the client application to determine which files will be assigned to private pools (NSR) and which files will be assigned to shared pools (LSR).

Set file access parameter.

Optional. You can generally use the default values.

Tune I/O performance.

Optional. You can generally use the default values.

Propagate the ENQ requests across systems.

Mandatory if you are running the file server on multiple systems (host and remote file servers).

Protect managed data sets using external security (CA Top Secret, CA ACF2, RACF)

Mandatory.