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If you don't understand what's wrong with PDS, re-read Etienne Thijsse's
thread on attempting to delete a PDSE member. Or imagine my astonished
dismay the first time I allocated a member with DISP=(OLD,DELETE) and
watched the entire PDS vanish. Enough counterintuitive behaviors and "flaws"
with recondite repairs add up to "wrong".
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I submit that this issue was caused by a faulty understanding of how
PDS's and JCL
work together. You can view it as a flaw if you like, and I do, but
there are provided
mechanisms to circumvent this "flaw". Not always nice and certainly not
intuitive,
but still available.
Rick
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